American Airlines Cargo has opened its ExpediteTC° pharmaceutical cold storage facility at Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania.

“With our quickly growing network at American, we see a great importance in investing in our infrastructure and people,” said Jim Butler, president of American Airlines Cargo. “We will continue to evolve our products and services as needed to ensure these sensitive shipments remain just as safe and potent for the end user as designed by the manufacturer.”

The new facility was purpose-built to cater to a full range of pharmaceutical products, according to American. It occupies an area of 2,325m² and is staffed or monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The facility consists of a number of different zones, including a 560m² area for shipments to be kept between 15°C and 25°C, a 280m² refrigerated area kept between 2°C and 8°C, a deep frozen area for shipments requiring -10°C to -20°C, and an active container management area which has charging stations capable of simultaneously recharging more than 30 RKN containers.

American also has controlled room temperature facilities maintaining a temperature range of 15°C to 25°C at several major locations such as Chicago, Dallas, London, Miami, New York and San Juan.