Dubai, Hyderabad airports ink deal for global vaccine supply corridor

Dubai, Hyderabad airports ink deal for global vaccine supply corridor

Dubai, Hyderabad airports ink deal for global vaccine supply corridor Admin 14 hours ago Local NewsDUBAI / WAMDubai Airports, operator of Dubai International (DXB) and Dubai World Central (DWC), and GMR Hyderabad (GMR-HYD) have joined forces to create a Covid-19 vaccine distribution corridor. Home to 88 global airlines including Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates, and 12 international and 400 local and regional freight forwarders, Dubai Airports with its interlinked cargo facilities at DXB and DWC and in partnership with dnata cargo, the airport service provider in Dubai, the HYD-DXB vaccine corridor will provide the capacity to seamlessly handle up to 300 tonnes of vaccines per day. The announcement follows the formalisation of an agreement after months of preparations by the two entities to design and create a seamless end-to-end logistics solution. The HYD-DXB vaccine corridor connects major vaccine manufacturers in India with markets around the world via Dubai's state-of-the-art cargo hub. “A major surge in demand for the efficient, safe and reliable global distribution of high volumes of Covid-19 vaccines is expected in the coming months and as the world's preeminent hub of choice, we wanted to be ready to respond to and accommodate that demand. Our partnership with