In cavernous cold-storage warehouses at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, KLM workers are gearing up for a surge next year in Covid-19 vaccine cargos that will need to be flown around the world at ultra-low temperatures.

A major hub for pharmaceutical products, Schiphol has already handled some of the vaccines being used in trials and KLM's boss is confident its “cold chain” operations will cope with the influx of cargos as mass inoculations start in earnest.

“The short and sweet of it is, yes, we're ready,” KLM Chief Executive Pieter Elbers told Reuters. “Obviously both for societies and our industry it's of paramount importance to have these vaccines distributed at the quickest possible pace.”

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