UPS Healthcare accelerates cold chain capabilities

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UPS has announced it is accelerating its cold chain capabilities by expanding its specialty pharmaceutical offerings and establishing UPS Cold Chain Solutions. It offers a suite of cold chain technologies and capabilities, in addition to expanded global facilities providing end-to-end temperature-controlled logistics.

“The future of the healthcare and specialty pharmaceutical industries will increasingly rely on robust cold chain networks to safely deliver temperature-controlled drugs and therapies to customers,” said Kate Gutmann, UPS chief sales and solutions officer and SVP, UPS Global Healthcare. “The continued evolution of our cold chain offerings ensures UPS is ready for the future and can continue to provide long-term value for our healthcare customers.”

UPS Cold Chain Solutions aims to provide an end-to-end cold chain service offering, including storage and distribution, transportation, visibility, and quality assurance capabilities to meet demands for critical products around the world.

As part of a continued strategy to build sophisticated capabilities in cold chain logistics, UPS Healthcare is expanding and augmenting its temperature-controlled products and services, including:

  • Cold chain GMP storage capacities – roughly 390,000 sq ft of coolers and freezers installed at UPS facilities to support the storage of biologics ranging from 2 degrees Celsius to as low as minus-80 degrees Celsius
  • Packaging customisation – recommendations for specific temperature-controlled packaging options to minimise total cost while ensuring safe and efficient transportation of products
  • UPS European cold chain ground network expansion – adding more ground transportation fleets, improve connection between gateways and teams of experts to create customisable solutions that fit its customers’ needs
  • Transportation efficiencies – four flexible, temperature-regulated service options via air or ocean freight that can be configured to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical packaging and help keep customer costs down
  • Precise monitoring with UPS® Premier technology – protocols to provide pinpoint visibility into covered pallets, boxes, trailers and packages within 10 ft of their location anywhere in the UPS network
  • Facility updates – construction of two new GDP-compliant, healthcare-licensed distribution facilities in Italy and Australia, as well expansions and cold chain retrofit projects to facilities in The Netherlands, Czechia, Poland, Hungary and the US

Source: UPS

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