Cold Chain Ground

Pharma-Liner® Cold Chain Transport, Built for European Healthcare

Pharma-Liner^® is the active dual-temperature Less-than-Truckload (LTL) backbone of our Cold Chain Ground offering, moving temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments across Europe. It gives you a reliable way to move smaller pharmaceutical loads with the same care and control you'd expect from a full truck. You get active temperature protection, real-time visibility and GDP-compliant handling from pickup through delivery, so your products stay protected every step of the way.

Core Capabilities

• Customisable active 2-8˚C and 15-25˚C cold chain solutions provide customers with unparallelled shipment opportunities.
• Service includes Less than Truck Load (LTL) and Full Truck Load (FTL) options for parcels and pallets, domestic and cross-board transportation, constant temperature monitoring and ongoing track and trace visibility.

Customer Focus

• Healthcare-dedicated ground transportation experts are available to help coordinate shipments, ensure adherence to EU GDP guidelines and assist with customs brokerage.
• Our scheduled departure and transit times allow our customers to plan and budget the transportation costs for their supply chain.
• Active temperature-controlled vehicles ensure the delivery of your products to all types of healthcare consignees including wholesalers and distributors, pharmacies, hospitals, manufacturers, patients, vets, patients and laboratories.
• Expertise in local regulations and restrictions helps guarantee quality, safety and adherence to the highest standards of distribution.

Safety and Security

• Location tracking technology and temperature traceability monitoring devices provide real-time visibility to your shipment throughout its journey.
• We work with our customers to establish robust processes and contingency plans to deal with deviations in temperature.
• Vehicles are equipped with safety devices and our staff are specially trained to handle and transport these products from collection to final delivery.

Ongoing Expansion and Our Footprint

The expanding footprint of the active cold chain ground service across Europe allows us to serve our customers’ needs for domestic and cross-border distribution from parcel to full load. We offer:

• UPS Healthcare™ Cold Chain Ground Network: Our network service for pallets and parcels allows us to collect your temperature-controlled shipments from all European countries and deliver across the United Kingdom, Benelux, France, Italy, Nordics and Eastern Europe. Expansion is in progress for additional countries Throughout Europe.
• UPS Healthcare™ Cold Chain Ground Direct: Our Door-to-Door LTL & FTL pallet service allows us to collect and deliver your temperature-controlled shipments across Europe.

Sustainability

We are committed to helping our customers reach their sustainability goals by offering customised solutions that will best fit their needs, including switching from passive to active cold chain solutions. Benefits from this one change include:

• Significant savings in cold chain packaging storage, preparation and handling.
• Environmental savings due to reduced dimensional weight of the parcel in temperature-controlled vehicles.
• No longer needing to recycle passive packaging like Phase Change Materials (PCM).
• Less unpacking time and waste management.

Pharma Transportation

• Complete Temperature Control: Pharma-Liner(r) trucks maintain strict cold chain requirements, helping to ensure specialty drugs and vaccines stay within validated temperature ranges from pickup to delivery.
• Flexible Multi-Temperature Transport: The Pharma-Liner trucks feature dual-compartment capabilities, allowing for different products to be shipped in a single vehicle to help simplify overall logistics.
• Continued Security: High-value pharmaceuticals are protected during transport through the use of advanced locks, active alarms, and TAPA-compliant risk management to prevent tampering.

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