Worldwide Flight Services has opened a temperature-controlled facility for pharmaceuticals at Copenhagen Airport.

According to WFS, the investment is in support of airline customers’ growing pharma volumes. The facility has the capacity to store up to 16 cargo units and offers separate temperature chambers offering both 2-8°C and 15-25°C environments. Each lane in the building is also equipped with an electronic rollerbed system to expedite the handling of pharma shipments.

Separately, WFS has been awarded the cargo-handling contract for Air India’s new thrice-weekly weekly Boeing 787-8 flight between Delhi and the Danish capital.

“We are delighted to be handling cargo carried onboard Air India’s new non-stop services between Denmark and India, which offers a direct trade link for exporters and importers in both countries,” said Jimi Daniel Hansen, general manager of Scandinavia at WFS. “WFS is also progressing towards its IATA CEIV certification in Denmark with the opening of our new cooler facility to supports our customers’ premium cargo products for temperature-sensitive pharma shipments.”

WFS expects to complete the CEIV Pharma certification programme in Denmark in early 2018.

Brussels became the first WFS cargo station in Europe to obtain the CEIV Pharma certification earlier this month.