The agreement – financial terms of which were not disclosed – is designed to support the airline's development of a new import-export route for active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and finished drug products. The new route will include hubs in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Frankfurt and Geneva.
Bourji Mourad, Head of Global Partner Management & Compliance at Envirotainer, said: “The partnership with Air China Cargo is another positive step forward in China, APAC and indeed worldwide, as more stations and capacity are added to the portfolio in order to support the growing demands.
Mourad added that: “Our Singapore-based Global Partner Manager Paul Seet will be assisting Air China Cargo with the roll out of this agreement as well as managing the partnership between our two companies.”
Sweden-based Envirotainer opened a service center in Shanghai completing a busy year of expansion that also saw it set up a US headquarters in New York and an office in Singapore.
Demand and prices
Envirotainer’s global growth has been driven by growing industry demand for its range of cold chain shipping technologies.
Last April the firm said “strong demand for our active temperature-controlled container solutions” and a desire to invest had prompted it to increase the price of its RKN e1 and RAP e2 containers by 3%. The new prices came into effect in October.