Our STOCKPHARMA office in Basel, Switzerland, has currently expanded their Swissmedic licence portfolio. As a result, STOCKPHARMA AG is now authorised for the following:

Narcotics

Manufacturing

Export

Import

Wholesaling

Foreign Trade

These allow STOCKPHARMA AG  to maintain their leading positiion as a swissmedic certified logistic provider

For more information on our Swiss subsidiary you can now visit their brand new website through the following link:

www.stockpharma.ch

STOCKPHARMA was at Chemie Plus Magazine for the Swiss Chemical, Pharmaceuetical and Biotechnological industry.

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Global Freight Group is a private Organization formed by small and medium enterprises of which Airfarm Group is a full rights member since 1997.
Through this association, Airfarm is able to deliver a local service on a global scale. 

The member companies of the Global Freight Group meet annually, and in the last reunion in Sri Lanka, Airfarm Group received the presidential award for company of the year, recognizing its effort and work both with the association and individually.

In the picture, Emili Ventura, Sales Manager in Airfarm Group, is receiving the award.

Under the tagline “Global change, migration and health”, Barcelona held de VII Congress of Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH) 2011 at the CCIB Exhibition Centre. During four days, starting on October 3rd, more than a thousand specialists had a chance to debate about a wide range of topics related to tropical medicine and global health.

Mundo Sano foundation was present in this congress and Airfarm Group utilized the occasion to offer their support. This participation represents a new step on their fight against the spread of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).

Barcelona forwarders visited the port of Tarragona accompanied by its President, Josep Andreu; the President of the Association for the promotion of the port of Tarragona (APPORTT), Josep Saltó; the President of ATEIA Tarragona, José Luis Vilar; and the director of organization of the port, Joan Basra, who made a presentation of the enclave and terminals as DP World Tarragona and Euroports Iberica.

Josep Andreu reminded the forwarders that Tarragona is working to provide as soon as possible with European track gauge.

Valenciaport’s figures during the first half of the year have been very positive, especially in terms of container traffic, goods of reference for the port of Valencia.

Until the month of June 2.134.637 TEUs have been moved in the three ports managed by the port authority of Valencia - Valencia, Sagunto and Gandia – these results represent an increase of 7,58% over the same period of the previous year.

The total traffic of the port of Bilbao has reached the figure of 17 million tonnes between January and June, representing a 10% increase over the same period of last year.

AENA gave yesterday the details of airport traffic in the first half of the year, closed with an increase of 3.1 per cent in the total volume of air cargo managed.

The Spanish airports moved 327.61 million of kilos, against the 317.9 of the first half of 2010.

These data confirms the positive streak launched in 2010, based on the success of Madrid-Barajas and Vitoria, and despite of the bad results obtained at Barcelona and Zaragoza.

Until June, Madrid grew 7.7% to 193.67 million kilograms, while Vitoria did a 18.8% to 16.68 million kilos. Barcelona closed the first half of the year with a drop of 6.5 per cent (49,65 million kilograms) and Zaragoza with a decline of 8.3% (18,61 million kilos).

Spanish airports moved a total of 255.66 million kilos of international freight, which means a growth of 4.7% over the same period of the previous year; while the national shipments suffered a decline of 2.1%.

Protection and security are the subject of a specific and constant dedication in the field of management of the port authority of Valencia (VPA) making it one of the strategic lines of the VPA: "Promote and integrate respect for the environment and security in the operations".

For this reason, the port of Valencia has become the first major port operator in Europe to obtain the international certification ISO 28000.

UNE-ISO 28000 credits the VPA meets the requirements of the standard to the organizations to which they provide services, guaranteeing the real increase in the protection of the logistics chain within its sphere of competence

This will be a crucial week for the return to normality of fruit and vegetable exports by road from Spain. Although until last Friday, the markets were still standing, everything suggests that this week will be a change in the situation, beginning to recover the demand gradually.

CETIM estimated weekly losses that their organization is suffering at 25 million euros, while those of Fenadismer would exceed the 15 million euros.

The damages to the transport sector will be included in the compensatory measures which the Government will request to the EU. Responsible for coordinating this plan of action is the Government first Vice President, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, who confirmed last Friday that he had requested the EU to assume the leadership of this matter.

Rubalcaba was concerned about the commercial dimension that has had the management of the crisis for Spain and said, with regard to compensation, that "someone has to pay the damage" to the Spanish producing and exporting companies.

Angela Merkel promised to Zapatero on Thursday afternoon that his country will consider formulas within the framework of the EU to compensate Spain.

A new agreement between AIRFARM and Mundo Sano Foundation has been signed on 7th of May 2011 . Mundo Sano Foundation is a non-profit organization involved in the research and prevention of transmissible diseases such as Chagas disease, dengue or hantaviruses diseases.

Born in 1993, develops and manages intervention models based on technology transfer in order to share approaches or models with the affected communities and trying to integrate scientific activities and the needs of the most socially vulnerable areas.

Currently chaired by Dr. Silvia Gold, its aim is to achieve tangible results which can be applied to different situations, both domestic and international, with projects that tend to achieve assessable and sustainable social impact.

On the basis of a multidisciplinary work, Mundo Sano is financed by private companies concerned with scientific knowledge applied to improve living conditions of the most affected areas.

The intention of AIRFARM with the sign of this new agreement is to obtain the continuity and stability to the initiatives that the Foundation has been carrying with CRESIB to mitigate the impact of tropical diseases neglected around the world.

Spanish and European air sector lives with uncertainty the evolution of the cloud of volcanic ash from the Icelandic volcano Grimsvötn.

The spokesman for transport of the European Commission, Helen Kearns, stated that there is the possibility that the volcanic cloud affects European airspace, starting with the Northwest area, specifically the United Kingdom and Ireland.

It is currently difficult to make predictions beyond the next 48 hours and see if it will affect other areas of Europe, because the weather conditions are constantly changing and just a few data are available on the volume of ash expelled and its density.

The cloud of ash from the volcano could come to the North of Spain on Thursday if the intensity of the eruption continues. Meanwhile, the aviation sector lives with uncertainty this week with the mind set in the crisis of last year.

Container’s traffic moved by the Spanish ports reached the 2.965.077 of TEUs during the first quarter of the year, what means an increase of 3.8% over the same period of the last year.

This registration consolidates the sustained growth that had this type of traffic over the past year, when Spanish ports moved 12.5 million TEUs.

The analysis of the results of the first quarter by autonomies shows that one million containers were moved from Valencia, which confirms its supremacy at the national level and also in the South of Europe.

The Valencia port authority had closed 2010 with 4.2 million TEUs, ranking as the fifth European port and the twenty-eighth in the world. Behind Valencia we find Andalucía, with 805.733 containers in the first quarter, what means a 27.2% of the national total.

Catalonia, with a growth of 17.3 per cent in the first quarter, occupies the third position at the national level, and their 590.019 TEUs represent a 19.9% of Spanish total. Barcelona, with 536.023 containers, has been consolidated in third national position behind Valencia and Algeciras Bay.

The Basque country is positioned as fifth community per volume of manipulated TEUs, after the Canary Islands, with a growth of a 6.7% in the first quarter. 125.868 Containers were moved by the port authority what represent a 4.2 per cent of the national total.

Valencia, Algeciras, Barcelona and Las Palmas appear among the first hundred ports of the world. This mode of transport is very important because an 85% of imports and 65% of Spanish exports are carried out by sea.

It was unanimously adopted the motion submitted yesterday to support the Puerto de La Luz and Las Palmas as a logistic centre of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

The longshoremen in the port of Las Palmas have valued very positively this initiative which would involve the creation of 200 jobs in the stowage sector.

AIRFARM intends to settle in the Air freight Centre of Barcelona where will feature 10,000 SqMts located in the second row of the airport facilities.

This project includes the construction of a warehouse of 9,500 sqMts of surface and some modern offices of about thousand square meters, where the headquarters of the company will be accommodated.

These new facilities will make it possible to concentrate all our operational logistics and simplify workflows that currently are located in several spots or warehouses, in these facilities located in the Air Cargo Centre of Barcelona international airport.

In the new platform will operate our two brands: STOCKPHARMA (committed to chemical and pharmaceutical products) and SMARTCARGO (committed to the general cargo), aiming to provide a better service to our customers and optimizing our operating costs.

On the other hand these new facilities will allow us to increase our capacity for goods in transit, in regime of storage and picking activities. The storage area will have a total of 15 docks and two ramps and will feature four well differentiated areas, distinguishing a controlled temperature of 2 to 8 degrees area, an area aimed to the general cargo, an exclusive area for dangerous goods and another dedicated to the goods that require a temperature below 25 degrees.

The project includes also a space for what is known as "white room", a special zone very well defined and specially designed for very low rates of contamination. The definition of all these spaces is necessary due to our specialization in the logistics of chemical, pharmaceutical and veterinary industries.

It is scheduled that construction will start on the next month of May and be able to make the move to new facilities just after the summer of 2012.

Iberia and British Airways have joined its cargo operations in a single business unit, result of its fusion in International Airlines Group (IAG), which will report directly to the 'holding'. Both companies will maintain their current brands and will be located among the ten largest cargo Airlines in the world.

The Union of both businesses will allow combining the extensive network of British Airways flights in North America, Africa and Asia with the ones of Iberia at Latin America as well as joining purchasing or commercial opportunities with the intention of increasing the profitability of the group.

IAG is planning to form a small management team in the 'holding' and the rest of the employees will continue working in their current companies.

In 2010, Iberia and BA Cargo revenues amounted to more than €1.1 billion, with more than 5.890 million tones-km transported. They have over 2,700 employees and a network covering more than 200 airports.

The past 28th of March was inaugurated the new flight Barcelona - Sao Paulo, which will operate three times a week. Singapore Airlines offers this service using the most modern aircraft in its fleet to cover this route, the Boeing 777-300R.

On the other hand, Iberia launched its direct flight from Barcelona to Miami that will connect both cities three times a week; this adds to the direct flights the company already offers from the Catalan capital to New York operated by American Airlines.

Jade Cargo plans to open a new service with two direct weekly flights between Shenzhen and Barcelona with a stop in New Delhi and Frankfurt, but this service is still pending of approval by the regulatory authorities.

Finally, Lufthansa Cargo will cover the route from Barcelona to the cities of Shanghai and Shenzhen via Frankfurt using a MD11-F freighter with three weekly flights offering a capacity of 84 tons per flight.

Last 25th of March was held the presentation of the project of the third stage of the Barcelona airport Air Cargo Centre which will involve the development of a new area of 104.000Sq.Mts (29.000Sq.Mts in front of the airport and 75.000Sq.mts in the second line).

This urbanization has meant an investment of 11.2 million Euros by AENA who has already invested 46.5 million Euros in the air cargo centre of Barcelona.

This way the airport will feature 471.000Sq.Mts dedicated to the air cargo, with a complete system of facilities designed to improve their competitiveness and to enhance the logistics activity of air transport in Barcelona.

Note the significant increase in the activity of air cargo in Barcelona the past 2010 with a total of 104.280 rigged tons, a 16.1% increase over the previous year. The set of Spanish airports transported 652.146 tonnes during the same period which represents a 15.5% more than in 2009. The first two months of this year confirms this positive trend with a growth of the 7.7% in Spain and 1.2% in Barcelona.

AIR France-KLM Cargo will offer new flights this summer to several destinations all around the world. The main destinations we would like to highligh are the following:

To the United States and from the beginning of June the company will offer a new service to Orlando from Paris three times per week and their direct flights from Amsterdam to Miami will restart from the 21st of March.

From the 28th of March they will fly three times a week from Paris to Phnom Penh in Cambodia via Bangkok. There will also be three direct flights per week from Schiphol to Xiamen from the 27th of March.

In Africa the airline will add Freetown and Monrovia to its network, operating from Paris twice a week to Freetown and adding also two flights per week to Monrovia via Conakry from Paris.
Finally Lima will be a new direct destination from Paris from the 21st of June five times a week.