{"id":56946,"date":"2025-11-03T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.nordtec.se\/uncategorized\/mapping-ensures-the-right-climate-for-pharmaceutical-shipping\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:46:18","slug":"mapping-ensures-the-right-climate-for-pharmaceutical-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage.nordtec.se\/en\/customer-stories\/mapping-ensures-the-right-climate-for-pharmaceutical-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping ensures the right climate for pharmaceutical shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mapping ensures the right climate for pharmaceutical shipping<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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At Arlanda Airport, Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) works to ensure that pharmaceuticals and other sensitive goods are stored in the right temperature environments before and after air freight. Temperature mapping in terminals and trailers has helped WFS create stable storage and transportation climates that future-proof cargo handling. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right temperature can be the difference between effective medicines and unusable goods. The air freight company WFS, which handles pre- and post-transports at Arlanda Airport with great precision, knows this. Its customers are both airlines and freight forwarders. Goods arriving by plane are transported to companies and organizations that have ordered the goods, while freight to be transported by air is collected and delivered to the airport on time. – Often you don’t know today what will happen tomorrow. It could be someone calling in the morning and saying: “We have 100 pallets that need to be picked up for a cargo flight tonight. Can you do it?” Then you just have to get moving,” says Anders Schedin, Transport Manager at WFS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meticulous preparation for shipping<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In WFS’s terminal at Arlandastad, extensive and important preparatory work takes place. All incoming goods are x-rayed, labeled and carefully checked. Not least if it involves dangerous goods such as explosives and radioactive goods. About six hours before the flight is due to take off, the goods are transported to WFS’s terminal at Arlanda Airport. The terminal is divided into three zones: an area for ordinary goods, a room with a controlled room temperature of 15-25\u00b0C and a refrigerated area that maintains 2-8\u00b0C. Under careful procedures, the goods are passed through the terminal and packed for air transportation. Often, goods are placed on thin aluminum pallets with mesh covers (called ULDs – Unit Load Devices), which are then rolled into the cargo holds of the aircraft. On arrival, the opposite is done: aluminum pallets are reloaded into standard pallets for road transport. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tough storage requirements for medicines<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Around half of the air freight handled by WFS consists of pharmaceuticals. And the volumes are growing rapidly all the time. It involves shipping both finished medicines and ingredients for the production of new medicines. The requirements of both the Medical Products Agency and the pharmaceutical companies are strict: all pharmaceutical products must be stored at the right temperatures around the clock. To meet these requirements, envirotainers are sometimes used, which are special refrigerated containers that maintain stable temperatures throughout transportation. – Previously, short deviations during transhipments were accepted. But after Covid, the World Health Organization (WHO) has tightened the rules. Nowadays, sensitive medicines are never allowed to be outside their temperature ranges, says Anders Schedin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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