Delta Cargo Becomes The First U.S-Based Global Carrier To Earn CEIV Certificate

Delta Cargo today earned IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV) certification for pharmaceutical handling, making it the first global carrier based in the United States to receive the distinction.

In conjunction with its CEIV-Pharma-certified partner Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo, Delta Cargo now operates the first CEIV-Pharma trans-Atlantic network, connecting Delta’s Atlanta hub with other CEIV-certified partners, stations and handlers in Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan, Paris and Rome.

Trans-Atlantic pharmaceutical trade has registered consistent growth over the last decade-plus, however, with 50 percent of the industry’s recorded temperature excursions happening while in the hands of air carriers and airports, the airfreight mode saw its share of global pharma transport decline from 17 percent to 11 percent between 2000 and 2013, prompting a demand for industry standards.