Celebi Aviation operationally ready to handle COVID-19 vaccines
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Updated: Saturday, January 16, 2021, 17:24 [IST]
Mumbai, Jan 16: Turkish aviation firm Celebi Aviation on Friday said it is operationally ready to handle COVID-19 vaccines and is working closely with existing airline operators and freight forwarders to understand their specific requirements.
The company has the infrastructure and capabilities to handle as many charters as required, at its facility and ensure a quick turnaround time , it said in a release.
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Besides warehousing, the company offers ground handling services to these freight operators, Celebi Aviation said.
Stating that it is operationally ready to handle the COVID-19 vaccines, the Turkish firm said the distribution of the vaccine will take place through its state-of-the-art pharma logistics center situated at Delhi Airport, which has the capacity of 72,000 MT annually.
First COVID-19 vaccine consignment reaches Delhi from Pune
The first consignment of Covishield consisting of 34 boxes and weighing 1088 kg was carried from Pune to Delhi on SpiceJet flight 8937.
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First consignment of COVID-19 vaccination arrives at Delhi Airport in a special SpiceJet flight from Pune. (Photo | PTI)
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NEW DELHI: Ahead of the launch of a nationwide vaccination drive against the coronavirus on January 16, airlines operated by Air India, Spicejet, Indigo and Goair have started ferrying vaccines from Pune to other cities.
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said four airlines will operate nine flights to transport 56.5 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine from Pune to 13 cities across the country on Tuesday.
In a tweet, DIAL asked all passengers arriving from the UK to strictly adhere to the new rules. “Flight operations from the UK have resumed from 0:01 hrs. 8th January 2021. All arriving passengers from the UK to Delhi Airport must adhere to the following,” DIAL tweeted, listing the rules to be followed.
Development work on India s biggest airport and a new film city made sure Gautam Buddh Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh stayed in the limelight in a year headlined by a pandemic and lockdown. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, in his multiple visits to the district in 2020, dubbed Noida and Greater Noida show window of the state. Infamous for crime, the district switched to the commissionerate system of policing in January, a move that appeared to have bore good results as number of street and heinous crimes went down in 2020 over the previous year.
Police Commissioner Alok Singh, while presenting the crime data for the year on December 30, said the crime graph had gone down in the district and remarked that his force had been on an aggressive mode of policing to keep citizens safe.
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New Delhi: In what may bring cheers to millions of people living in the NCR region a senior government executive has told news agency PTI that the first flight is expected to take off by December 2023 or January 2024.
Noida International Airport Limited (NIAL) CEO Arun Vir Singh told PTI that work on the upcoming Noida International Airport is progressing as scheduled, adding that the resettlement and rehabilitation of over 3,000 families who are getting displaced due to the mega greenfield project is likely to be completed by May 2021.