By Steve Healy Automation is increasingly being utilised across all sectors, and pharmaceutical logistics is no exception, where it plays a pivotal part in ensuring temperature integrity for pharma shipments being transported worldwide. Technological innovations are enabling new opportunities for supply chain visibility and reactivity, helping to protect the cold chain and ensuring temperature-sensitive, high-value pharmaceutical payloads reach their destinations in the correct … [Read more...] about Temperature integrity in pharmaceutical transportation through automation
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Delphine Perridy Boile joins Envirotainer
Envirotainer, a specialist in secure cold chain solutions for pharma shipments, has elected Delphine Perridy Boile as new chief sales officer (CSO). As a member of the executive management team, she will lead all sales and marketing activity and take responsibility for meeting growth targets. Delphine brings a wealth of expertise in the life sciences industry with senior sales roles at US firm IQVIA and Cegedim, who are widely known in the healthcare tech sector. She has worked in various … [Read more...] about Delphine Perridy Boile joins Envirotainer
CSafe elects new sales director in Singapore
Chervee Ho has joined air freight container supplier CSafe as senior sales director for Asia Pacific. In her new role, Ms. Ho will be responsible for further developing CSafe’s active and passive cold chain packaging business in the Asia Pacific market and identifying opportunities to expand into new markets throughout the region. She will also lead the APAC commercial team with local representation in Singapore, South Korea, Japan and India. Chervee’s last post was with European drug … [Read more...] about CSafe elects new sales director in Singapore
Peli BioThermal opens first station in China
Peli BioThermal has opened its first network station in China as it looks to provide more convenient temperature-controlled logistics solutions to the broader Asia-Pacific region. The new network station is located in Shanghai and will serve customers of the Crēdo™ on Demand rental programme. “China is the second largest pharmaceutical market in the world, and the country has plans to significantly grow its pharmaceutical industry over the next five years,” said Dominic Hyde, vice … [Read more...] about Peli BioThermal opens first station in China
Nippon Express gets GDP certification at Brussels airport
Nippon Express Belgium obtained the good distribution practice (GDP) certification for its air and ground forwarding operations at Brussels Airport. The new accreditation includes inventory control at the forwarders’s facility in the airport’s cargo area, showcasing compliance with GDP standards for the proper distribution of pharma products. The forwarder also signed a partnership agreement with pharma logistics specialist Medexi, which owns a dedicated pharma centre at Brucargo. It … [Read more...] about Nippon Express gets GDP certification at Brussels airport
Brussels, Abu Dhabi launch pharma air corridor
A collaboration led by the Hope Consortium, Abu Dhabi Airports Company, Brussels Airport and Pharma.Aero will see the formation of a direct air corridor for pharma shipments between Abu Dhabi and Belgium. Initiated by Abu Dhabi’s health department, the collaboration aims to establish a fully compliant origin-to-destination pharma air corridor between Abu Dhabi and Brussels Airports. The move follows an earlier visit by Abu Dhabi’s vaccine distribution consortium to Brussels Airport to … [Read more...] about Brussels, Abu Dhabi launch pharma air corridor