Menzies Aviation-Siginon Aviation, a strategic partnership providing cargo going through products and services in Kenya, has announced that it has been awarded the IATA CEIV Pharma accreditation for its recently expanded facility in Nairobi, Kenya.
This marks the seventh Menzies Aviation location to be awarded the prestigious certification, and its first in the Center East, Africa and Asia (MEAA).
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The three-300 and sixty five days accreditation is awarded to companies that prove the excessive standards space by the World Air Transport Affiliation’s (IATA) Center of Excellence for Neutral Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma).
It underscores Menzies Aviation-Siginon Aviation’s most sensible likely-in-class come to going through excessive-imprint, time-sensitive, and temperature-managed pharmaceutical merchandise. NBO joins Sydney (SYD), Melbourne (MEL), London Heathrow (LHR) and Budapest (BUD) and Amsterdam (AMS) airports, now all IATA CEIV Pharma approved.
The accreditation follows a primary investment in the cargo products and services at Jomo Kenyatta World Airport (NBO) in Nairobi. The 21,000 sqm cargo facility has passed through a primary growth, growing from 15,000 sqm. This entails elevated wintry room speak from 90 to 250 aircraft pallet positions alongside original docking stations for refrigerated autos, growing Menzies’ skill to transfer clinical and pharmaceutical merchandise. A brand original yard dwelling has additionally been performed to toughen traffic traipse alongside with the circulation administration, while additional security cameras and lighting fixtures were save in in a transfer to enhance security.
Charles Wyley, EVP Center East, Africa and Asia, Menzies Aviation, acknowledged: “We’re immensely proud that our expanded warehouse at NBO has change into the first cargo facility in the MEAA plight to to find IATA’s coveted CEIV Pharma accreditation. NBO joins a growing record of Menzies cargo locations which have now been awarded this sought-after recognition. With pharmaceutical shipment volumes persevering with to lengthen internationally, we’re dedicated to successfully meeting seek files from while upholding the very very most sensible cargo going through standards that this accreditation requires.”
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