COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out
Relevance
Packaging qualification is a critical element of pharmaceutical quality and patient safety, ensuring medicinal products remain protected throughout storage, handling, and distribution. As supply chains become more global and complex, life sciences organisations face growing pressure to accelerate time-to-market, control costs, and improve efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance. Yet current qualification practices often involve significant duplication of effort, with pharmaceutical companies repeating activities already performed by qualified packaging suppliers, while valuable supplier-generated performance and transport data remains underutilised due to concerns around standardisation, traceability, and regulatory acceptance.
GOAL
Project Objectives
As a continuation of Project Sunrays, this project seeks to collate insights from the air cargo industry within Pharma.Aero membership on the measures undertaken, their hands-on experience and lessons learned from the initial handling and transportation of the COVID-19 vaccines based on four key requirements: speed, reliability, security, and transparency, and from our Pharma Shippers on how air cargo has responded to the humanitarian task thus far.
Timeline
June - August
Preliminary Research & Industry Insights
July - September
October
Framework Development & Qualification Mapping
Industry Opinion Paper Publication
PROJECT
SUPPORT AND
COLLABORATION.
- Pharma.Aero Board liaison and project lead: Changi Airport Group
- Project members: 22 members respondents to the survey and 7Â members interviewed