International air cargo group opens pharmaceuticals handling facility at Cape Town

The International Airlines Group’s (IAG’s) freight business, IAG Cargo, announced on Thursday that Cape Town had become its latest station to receive approval to handle the shipment of temperature- and time-sensitive healthcare products. These included bioscience and healthcare inputs and products, but especially pharmaceuticals (ranging from components to vaccines). IAG Cargo called its dedicated pharmaceutical, and other healthcare products, transport network “Constant Climate”. Cape Town was the second Constant Climate station to be launched this year, following that in Cincinnati in the US in September. Cape Town also took the number of such stations in Africa to five, and the global total to more than 100, spread across six continents.