UPS
has launched UPS Temperature True®, its door-to-door cold chain transportation
and monitoring service in Asia.
Working closely with the industry and
governmental regulating bodies, UPS also introduced PharmaPort™ 360, a
specially-designed airfreight container for healthcare cold chain
transportation.
“UPS Temperature True represents our
philosophy in managing cold chain transportation. We ensure that every care is
taken throughout the journey to ensure the vaccines, biologics and other
temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments arrive at their destination without
compromise” said Craig Foster, senior vice president, Supply Chain and
Healthcare Logistics, UPS Asia Pacific. “Through planning, controls and a
strong global logistics network, we minimize one of the highest healthcare cost
elements, wastage due to product spoilage.”
For UPS Temperature True shipments, trained
agents monitor shipment milestones 24/7 through UPS’s control towers positioned
around the world. If risk is detected, pre-determined contingency plans are
immediately activated to mitigate any risk of damage or loss.
“These high-value, temperature-sensitive
pharmaceuticals, vaccines and biologics demand special care and handling. They
often require global transportation – from the manufacturing plant, to the
doctor and to the end-patient,” said Lim Bee Koong, director, Healthcare
Strategy, UPS Asia Pacific. “As much as 30 percent of the manufacturer’s
distribution cost is allocated to potential spoilage during the storage and
transportation process.”
Unlike other containers on the market, the
PharmaPort 360 has built-in sensors that not only closely monitor shipment
temperature and GPS location but transmit this data to UPS’s global control
towers via GSM, a standard global cellular network. UPS trained and dedicated
control tower agents proactively monitor the container for select “heartbeats”
such as internal and external temperatures, near real-time location and battery
life.
Manufactured by Cool Containers, LLC for UPS,
the PharmaPort 360 is designed with input from both the UPS, life sciences and
other transportation industry experts. The unit is fully validated, tested and
exceeds rigorous healthcare industry standards for temperature-sensitive
compliance.
What sets the PharmaPort 360 container apart
is that it maintains strict temperatures by utilizing both heating and cooling
storage technology, allowing it to tolerate a significantly wider range of
extreme ambient temperature changes.
The container more effectively maintains
temperatures critical for protecting medicines that need to stay within the
required 2-8°C. The PharmaPort 360 also sustains its protective temperature
range for more than 100 hours, which is an important factor as more supply
chains extend globally and healthcare products need to travel farther to reach
markets.
The container’s temperature control and
monitoring systems are powered by an AC rechargeable battery. The unit’s
technology replaces the need for dry ice, thus eliminating the associated
handling fees and hazardous materials charges. The PharmaPort 360 will hold
critical 2-8°C temperatures 38 percent longer than current dry ice container
solutions.
Source: PharmaPort
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