UPS Healthcare, a unit of UPS Inc. said Tuesday it will add three facilities, two in Europe and one in the United States, to its network of 125 facilities in 34 countries.
The UPS (NYSE: UPS) unit said it will open a facility in Roermond, the Netherlands, in early 2022 and another in Giessen, Germany, the following December. The Netherlands facility will have freezer farm capacity to store biopharma products — notably COVID-19 vaccines that must be kept at temperatures around minus 70, for...
With another extension of the emergency hours-of-service waiver looming, federal regulators want the trucking industry to let them know to what extent carriers and drivers are actually taking advantage of the exemption.
The first-of-its-kind, 50-state exemption was originally issued by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The order gives drivers and carriers more time to make deliveries without violating federal work-hour...
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UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS) said Monday that it has consolidated all its cold-chain logistics and delivery services into a dedicated global operation that falls under the Atlanta-based company’s UPS Healthcare umbrella.
The operation, called UPS Cold Chain Solutions, will more than double the company’s worldwide freezer storage capacity to 1 million square feet, and in particular expand the size of UPS’ European cold chain network, including a new facility in Italy. Dan Gagnon, UPS Healthcare’s vice...
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This is an excerpt from the April 27, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
The plan: The U.S. plans to release 60 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, which hasn’t been approved in the U.S., to other countries.
In addition, the U.S. will share raw materials for vaccine manufacturing, therapeutics, rapid test kits, ventilators and personal...
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This is an excerpt from the April 22, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
The trend: In response to the coronavirus pandemic, many companies in the health care industry sought out technology to increase visibility in their supply chains.
After getting a taste of supply chain visibility, health care logistics companies aren’t likely to go back.
Wh...
This is an excerpt from the April 20, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
Europe hopes mRNA vaccines will speed rollout after delays
New strategy: The European Union is turning to Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine to speed up the vaccine rollout after doses from AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson were delayed by health concerns and production problems, according to reporting from The New York Times.
This is an excerpt from the April 15, 2021 edition of Medically Necessary, a health care supply chain newsletter. Subscribe here.
What happened? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after a few recipients developed blood clots.
— Six women had blood clots after receiving the vaccine. One died and another is in critical condition, according to NPR.
— Right now, the CDC says these adverse...
The global rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has not only taxed the pharmaceutical supply chain but placed it under a magnifying glass, generating concerns about supply chains of non-COVID-related pharmaceutical products. To gain data-driven insights around these questions, FreightWaves’ Zach Strickland interviewed Christopher Engel, the commercial supply chain service director for World Courier, an AmerisourceBergen company.
“The global rollout of the vaccine is estimated to generate about...
