Worldwide Flight Services will invest in a new pharma facility at Copenhagen Airport to increase its support of the CPH Cargo Community’s growth strategy.

According to WFS, construction of the new facility will begin in April. The new building will cover an area of 1,500 square metres and will provide end-to-end handling in a temperature-controlled environment for 2-8°C pharma products, incorporating acceptance, offload, pre-storage, build-up and storage.

The facility will accept loose shipments and pre-built units through four dedicated cargo doors, offering a storage area large enough for 300 EUR pallets and 30 PMC pallets. WFS expects the construction process to be completed in time for the new building to undergo IATA CEIV Pharma pre-assessment in July 2019.

“This new investment in Copenhagen reflects our continued commitment to support airport cargo communities with growing pharma volumes,” said John Batten, EVP of cargo in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia at WFS. “We already have IATA CEIV certified locations in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels, Frankfurt, Madrid and Miami, and we have further investments planned to upgrade our pharma capabilities in other key WFS stations in the year ahead.”

WFS will also upgrade the existing temperature-controlled areas in its current facility in Copenhagen to handle growing volumes of pharma products requiring a temperature range of 15-25°C. This will be the company’s second investment in pharma facilities at the airport in under two years.

WFS has seen a 90% increase in the volume of pharma shipments since opening the first stage of its pharma infrastructure in Copenhagen at the end of 2017.

“There is already a fast-growing demand for high-quality handling of pharma shipments at Copenhagen Airport,” said Jimi Daniel Hansen, general manager of Scandinavia at WFS. “Our commitment to significantly increase our facilities will provide the capacity for future growth and establish Copenhagen as a world-class airport for pharma cargo.”