What's New:
UPS Healthcare is launching a series of enhancements to its UPS Premier service to strengthen healthcare supply chains. The most significant update extends UPS Premier to UPS Worldwide Express Freight^® shipments, giving healthcare customers priority handling, 24/7 monitoring and enhanced visibility across critical air freight lanes.

Additional UPS Premier investments will roll out throughout the rest of 2026 and into 2027.

Why It Matters:
Healthcare freight carries high-value, time-sensitive and temperature-sensitive products that require secure, consistent handling across borders. Expanding UPS Premier capabilities to support healthcare freight shipments gives customers a more reliable level of care, helping them manage complex trade lanes and supply chain uncertainty with greater confidence.

These ongoing UPS Premier updates reflect our commitment to customers and their unique needs, ultimately helping ensure that products reach the patients who depend on them.

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UPS Premier uses advanced sensor technology – RFID, Mesh or Cellular – to support priority handling, enhanced visibility and proactive recovery for critical healthcare shipments. Each update and network expansion helps protect products in transit, giving supply chain teams greater control over important shipments.

Recent Enhancements:

UPS Healthcare introduced several updates for UPS Premier service in 2026:

• UPS Premier for UPS Worldwide Express Freight: Customers receive freight prioritization, 24/7 monitoring and support at customs brokerage checkpoints, along with proactive recovery options. Customers can choose the UPS Premier service level that best fits their needs, with sensor linking options available to leverage third-party data loggers. Reach out to our team or ask a UPS Healthcare representative to understand the options for your freight shipments.
• Sensor linking Provider List Expands: UPS Premier service is adding more providers to its sensor linking capability, making adoption more accessible. The latest 2026 wave includes Tive and OnAsset, giving customers more flexibility to connect their trackers to Silver and Gold labels for early data driven alerts and faster recovery efforts. Sensor linking enables real-time visibility and tracking environmental data. These providers join Sensos, with more on the 2027 roadmap.
• UPS Premier Silver Expansion in Malaysia and Vietnam: UPS Healthcare has extended UPS Premier service into these high-growth Southeast Asia markets, bringing priority handling and shipment visibility across the region.
• UPS Premier Silver Expansion in 30 cities in APAC: UPS Healthcare has broadened UPS Premier Silver coverage to additional cities across Asia Pacific, serving healthcare customers with on-time delivery, shipment prioritization and 24/7 monitoring and visibility. Contact our team to learn more.

Trusted Global Trade Partner for Healthcare

As trade policy shifts and healthcare supply chains face growing pressure, having a logistics partner built for certainty matters more than ever. Tariff measures on the pharmaceutical, life science and medical device industry could rise from $0.5 billion to nearly $63 billion a year.¹ For shippers moving critical freight, that raises the stakes around visibility, prioritization and control. Delays or gaps in oversight can disrupt time-sensitive shipments, affect patient outcomes and create compliance risks that are difficult to recover from.

UPS Healthcare addresses these challenges directly through its continuous investments in key solutions like UPS Premier service. Each update reflects a deliberate focus on building logistics infrastructure that keeps pace with a shifting global trade environment, meeting both today's demands and those already emerging.

Continued Commitment to Healthcare

As healthcare demand grows, UPS Healthcare remains focused on solutions that meet the industry's needs. Earlier advancements, such as the completion of UPS Healthcare® Lablink and expanded freight forwarding capabilities, reflect the same commitment to building reliable healthcare logistics systems.

Contact us to learn how our logistics solutions can support your business.

Learn more about UPS Premier service and see if it's the right fit for your healthcare shipments here.

About UPS Healthcare

UPS Healthcare delivers trusted expertise in healthcare logistics to customers worldwide. With more than 20 million square feet of healthcare-licensed distribution space, we provide:

• Inventory management
• Cold chain packaging and shipping
• Medical device storage and fulfillment
• Lab and clinical trial logistics

Our global infrastructure, UPS^® Premier visibility service, advanced tracking technology and robust quality systems are designed to meet the complex logistics demands of the pharmaceutical, medical device and laboratory diagnostics industries.

¹ UNC Center for Business of Health. "Tariffs on Medical Devices and Supplies: Healthcare Cost Implications." Learn More

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