The Puerto Rico Life Sciences Community announced the launch of a data dashboard on its new website, offering its 40+ member companies from across the pharma air cargo supply chain access to data that can assist in ensuring more efficient operations. San Juan, Puerto Rico, is home to the largest aggregation of bioscience manufacturers in the U.S. It is the U.S.’ number one bioscience manufacturing hub by export volume, and The Puerto Rico Life Sciences Air Cargo Community, launched in April 2023, is an endeavor to bring key industry players together to improve quality within the industry. Its members including pharmaceutical and medical manufacturers, forwarders, airports, airlines, customs, hauliers, and representatives of the Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DEDC). The latter backs the initiative which is free to join for Puerto Rico-based companies involved in the Life Sciences and/or airfreight industries. All members will be meeting for the fourth time on 28FEB24, to discuss and implement quality initiatives to ensure that Puerto Rico has the highest quality airfreight hub in the Americas. The Community also act as a voice of the industry with legislators. Alongside initiatives such as a training program to support companies in achieving IATA CEIV Pharma certification, and an online directory based on a survey of warehousing facilities and trucking services, quality measures will be further developed thanks to a new dashboard. This specially customized dashboard was developed by air cargo data and software expert, Rotate. It combines and aggregates a range of data sources, to give a complete overview of the Puerto Rico (PR) air cargo market with regard to international air cargo imports and exports, air trade demand between PR and the U.S., and air cargo and mail traffic by airline.
Community Board member David Olan, Transportation Lead, Puerto Rico Operations, Johnson & Johnson, passed judgement: “The dashboard is an eye opener – data is an invaluable tool. The Community must work together to solve challenges, consolidate flights, and find direct flights – this dashboard will enable us to do just that. We will use this tool to manage risk, present information to our corporate offices, and drive quality in our Puerto Rico Life Sciences Hub.”
