The local airfreight industry should lobby for International Air Transport Association (Iata) pharmaceutical transport guidelines to be legislated. This according to the managing director of SPX Logistics, Sophie Goosen, who was speaking during a Savino Del Bene Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Interactive Forum in Johannesburg last week. She pointed to Iata’s pharma transport checklist which sets standard operating procedures for airlines and ground handling agents, explaining that when it was rolled out (July 2013), industry was given six months to comply. “Yet, four years later, there are still many companies not complying.” Goosen said the Iata Time and Temperature Task Force (TTTF) and working group members – which included airlines, ground handlers, freight forwarders and logistics companies – were “doing a great job” on developing globally accepted standards and regulations for the transportation of pharmaceutical goods.
