Qatar Airways Cargo recently became the latest cargo carrier to approve the use of Envirotainer’s Releye RLP temperature-controlled airfreight container.
In a statement, Qatar Airways said with the newest addition to its range of temperature-controlled containers, the airline now offers 16 temperature-controlled container leasing options for life science and health care products.
The Releye RLP unit uses rechargeable batteries, with a single battery charge able to power the system for over 170 hours — maintaining the pharma cargo longer, without the need of recharging. It is also enough to cover transit times and delays, if any.
Qatar Airways said the unit also offers live monitoring for product condition, location, temperature, humidity, battery levels, door openings, if cargo is loaded or not and the progress of shipments.
It added that its unique air flow technology provides maximum temperature stability in the cargo bay and these containers also deliver up to a 90% reduction in CO2 emissions, in perfect alignment with the airline’s sustainability goals.
“A seamless cool chain is paramount to maintain the efficacy of pharmaceuticals and we are pleased to offer our customers a technologically advanced container – Releye RLP with live monitoring and intelligent cargo protection to transport their critical life science and health care shipments at the required temperature across our global network,” said Guillaume Halleux, chief officer cargo at Qatar Airways.
“Such an innovation is the need of the hour, especially in these uncertain times of the pandemic,” he addeed.
Qatar noted that the Releye RLP unit fits three Euro pallets (or two-US pallets), filling a gap between the larger RAP and smaller RKN-size containers to enable mixing and matching of pallet sizes.
The airline has been already offering customers Envirotainer’s RAP and RKN active pharma containers since 2014.
Meanwhile, aside from Qatar Airways, United Cargo and Cathay Pacific Cargo has also earlier started launching the use of Releye RLP containers.
