Ethiopian Cargo Pharma Wing ready to distribute the Covid-19 vaccineEthiopian Cargo & Logistics Services, the largest cargo network operator in Africa, has announced its readiness with all required capabilities for the distribution of potential Covid-19 vaccine across Africa and the rest of the world. Commenting on Ethiopian’s preparation for the vaccine distribution, Ethiopian Group CEO Tewolde GebreMariam remarked, “Ethiopian Pharma Wing will repeat its remarkable and globally recognised success in leading the fast delivery of PPE few months ago with similar delivery speed, professional handling and maintaining the cool chain during the forthcoming global distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine. We are the major cargo partners of WHO, WFP donor governments and philanthropists in facilitating the flow of essential medical supplies owing to our massive cargo facility including our Pharma Wing, our large dedicated freighter fleet and well trained manpower. Earlier, Ethiopian demonstrated remarkable agility in its response to the increased cargo demand in the wake of the pandemic by reconfiguring around 25 passenger aircraft into freighters using its own internal MRO capabilities besides deploying all its 12 dedicated cargo aircraft. Since the Covid-19 outbreak, Ethiopian has operated over 360 charter flights to transport PPE’s over 100 countries across five continents.

Source: Ethiopian News November 04, 2020 07:41 UTC