COLD CHAIN AIR FREIGHT FOR AIRLINES AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
Cold chain air freight depends on keeping sensitive products at the right temperature from origin to destination. The risks do not stop when a shipment reaches the airport. Loading, unloading, tarmac waits, transfers and flight delays can all expose freight to changing conditions.
Cold Chain Technologies supports airlines and freight forwarders with thermal packaging, pallet shippers, thermal covers and monitoring tools. Each solution can be matched to the load, route, target temperature and trip time.
Benefits
Expert Design
Our engineers, designers, and QA specialists think outside the box about thermodynamics, materials sciences, and cold chain logistics.
Pre-Qualified
We pre-qualify every single product we design and manufacture to guarantee that your solution fits your specific temperature ranges.
Cost Saving
Our cost-effective thermal packaging solutions are designed to give you repeatable and reliable cost-savings.
Get to know us!
Learn why we are the number one choice for airlines and freight forwarders. For us, it’s about more than packaging. It’s about customer safety, product quality, and guaranteeing you can stand behind your products. We have the people, processes, technology, and expertise to give you sustainable and proven thermal packaging solutions.
Managing Risk Across the Air Freight Journey
Air freight can move products fast, but it also involves many handovers. A pallet may wait on the ramp. It may move between terminals or sit during a delay. Each stage can add thermal risk.
For cold chain air freight, packaging needs to protect the load beyond the flight itself. It should also account for the conditions before loading and after landing.
CCT offers pre-qualified systems and technical support to help teams compare options. Key factors include payload size, temperature range, route, duration and whether a single-use or reusable model fits the lane.
Thermal Packaging for Cold Chain Air Freight
CCT offers parcel, sub-pallet and pallet systems for different freight volumes. The pallet range includes single-use and reusable options for life science products.
Depending on the product family, options can support:
- Refrigerated shipments from +2°C to +8°C
- Controlled room temperature from +15°C to +25°C
- Frozen and ultra-cold applications
- Sub-pallet, single-pallet and double-pallet loads
- Water-based refrigerants, PCM or dry ice
- Single-use, reusable and selected rental models
The CCT Edge family is designed for bulk cold chain loads. CCT Edge Core supports +2°C to +8°C and +15°C to +25°C uses. Qualified versions can provide up to 120 hours of protection.
Reusable CCT Tower systems cover several pallet sizes and temperature needs. CCT Tower Elite offers about 1,600 litres of payload space. It also accepts both US and Euro pallet footprints.
Thermal Covers for Tarmac and Airport Exposure
A full pallet shipper is not always needed. Some cold chain air freight lanes need extra protection around an existing pallet.
CCT Thermal Covers are designed for temporary breaks in controlled conditions. They can help during aircraft loading, unloading, cross-docking and airport ramp exposure.
The covers are breathable, waterproof and weather-resistant. They also reflect more than 90% of incoming solar energy. This can help reduce heat gain during short periods outside controlled storage.
CCT also offers the Enshield PCM thermal blanket system. It supports selected chilled, room-temperature and frozen uses.
Monitoring and Real-Time Visibility
Packaging protects the load. Monitoring shows what happened during the journey.
CCT offers cold chain monitoring through chemical indicators, data loggers and real-time tracking. A logger can record conditions for review after delivery. Connected devices can provide live or near real-time updates while freight is moving.
This can help teams review a delay or possible temperature excursion. It can also support route reviews over time.
MedAssure brings logistics data, monitoring devices, weather data and thermal modelling into one platform. It gives teams a wider view of risk across the shipment.
Qualification and Technical Support
Reliable cold chain air freight starts with a system that fits the lane. CCT provides thermal packaging qualification for defined shipping needs.
Support can include design, operational and performance qualification. CCT can also provide thermal analysis and route profile work. These services can help teams understand how a solution may perform across different airports, seasons and handling points.
Support Backed by 50+ Years of Experience
CCT brings more than 50 years of cold chain experience to life science supply chains. Its airline and freight-forwarder offer includes CCT Edge, CCT Thermal Covers, CCT Enshield, CCT Tower systems and CCT Tower Elite.
For cold chain air freight, the best setup may combine packaging, covers, monitoring and digital tools.
Contact Cold Chain Technologies to discuss the payload, temperature range, route and transit time for your next air freight shipment.
Cold Chain Orchestration for a Complex World
CCT MedAssure is The cold chain orchestration platform designed by experts purpose‑built to amplify your capabilities as supply chains grow more complex.
