“Throughout the Group, it’s been a privilege to be a part of the worldwide struggle towards the pandemic. Our community world wide banded collectively to make the quickest, smoothest supply of Covid-19 vaccines worldwide doable. Now, we’re doing the identical with the newest antiviral drugs mentioned to considerably reduce the severity of the illness for sufferers and the neighborhood. We’re honored to ship this vital cargo to South Korea, the primary nation in Asia Pacific to obtain the Covid -19 antiviral drugs,” mentioned SP Music, Managing Director, DHL International Forwarding Korea.
“In contrast to the shipments of Covid-19 vaccines, which have been required to be shipped beneath particular temperature and dry ice situations, the transportation of the antiviral drugs are akin to common pharmaceutical items transported at a spread of 15-25 diploma Celsius, requiring restricted bespoke logistics preparations.”
DHL managed the transport of the antiviral drugs from the manufacturing websites in Germany to Belgium, the place the cargo undergoes value-added thermal packaging earlier than being transported to its vacation spot in South Korea.
“It’s important that as many individuals as doable have entry to vaccines and the required life-saving remedy when wanted. With a extremely skilled international community of healthcare logistics experience to make sure the integrity of the antiviral drugs all through the journey, we’re proud to proceed our half and assist make a distinction to lives and livelihoods within the communities we function in”, mentioned Music.
Greater than 9,000 life sciences and healthcare specialists work throughout DHL’s devoted international community in order that pharmaceutical, medical units, medical trials and analysis organizations, wholesalers and distributors, in addition to hospitals and healthcare suppliers are related throughout the worth chain and thru digitalization, from medical trials to level of care, and each step in between.
DHL’s portfolio for the healthcare business consists of 150+ pharmacists, 20+ medical trials depots, 100+ licensed stations, 160+ GDP-qualified warehouses, 15+ GMP-certified websites, 135+ medical specific websites, and a time-definite worldwide specific community masking over 220 nations and territories.
On a worldwide scale, logistics suppliers are challenged to determine medical provide chain quickly to ship vaccines of an unprecedented quantity of greater than 10 billion doses worldwide—additionally in areas with much less developed logistics infrastructures, the place roughly 3 billion folks stay. To supply international protection over the following two years, DHL estimated in its 2020 vaccine logistics whitepaper that as much as 200,000 pallet shippers and 15 million cooling packing containers, in addition to 15,000 flights, can be required throughout the varied provide chain setups. In its whitepaper “Revisiting Pandemic Resilience“, DHL additionally estimated that from 2022 onwards, an extra 7-9 billion vaccine doses are obligatory yearly to maintain (re-)an infection charges low and decelerate the tempo of virus mutations.
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Discover out extra about how South Korea turned one of many largest producer nations for Covid-19 take a look at kits the place DHL International Forwarding air-freighted greater than 1.3 million Covid-19 take a look at kits to Brazil, Ecuador, India, Lithuania, Poland and Russia in April 2020. Learn extra on DHL’s Logistics of Issues.
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