The International Cargo Terminal at Florianópolis Airport is ready to receive, store, nationalize and release vaccines to combat the coronavirus.

O Floripa Airport Cargo already has the Operating Authorization (AFE), issued by ANVISA, and has an infrastructure for storing goods in the most varied temperatures and equipment, with cold cameras and warehouses for cargo with temperatures between 15° to 22°C, 2° at 8°C and for negative temperatures up to -18°C. In the case of vaccines that need to be stored at a negative temperature below -70°C, the immunizers are already accommodated in equipment with dry ice, and the airport has adequate infrastructure for the storage of this type of merchandise. In addition, the Cargo Terminal has a covered area prepared to receive Envirotainer equipment, important for this type of transport.

“A Floripa Airport is ready to receive the different types of vaccine seen in the international market and to contribute to the southern states in this very important logistics for 2021”, comments Ricardo Gesse, CEO of Florianópolis airport.

The Florianópolis International Cargo Terminal stood out this year as an effective option for air cargo transport in southern Brazil. The airport received freighters from China with goods to combat the coronavirus and, as of August 2020, began to operate the weekly international freight route Miami - Florianópolis, hitherto unheard of in Santa Catarina and one of the few routes to operate with 100% of regularity.

Since October 2019, the airport has been approved by ANAC to receive “E” or wide body code aircraft, classification of most large freighters. THE Floripa Airport, a subsidiary of the Zurich Airport group that manages the airport, has carried out a series of infrastructure improvements in the last two years to adapt the airport to international freighters, including:

• expansion of the main take-off and landing runway;
• widening the runway with the implementation of shoulders;
• increase in yard capacity with the opening of the new terminal;
• the construction of safety areas at the headwaters, the so-called RESA; 
• construction of new taxiways.

Currently, the Floripa Airport Cargo records a record of agility in releasing cargo: 71% of cargo is released within 24 hours.