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EUR 3.4 million investment and 30 new jobs: DHL Global Forwarding opens new life sciences and healthcare competence centre in Leipzig

DHL Global Forwarding has inaugurated a new logistics centre for the pharmaceuticals industry, in Leipzig on 15 September. The state-of-the-art facility, covering almost 3,000 m², located in direct proximity to the Leipzig/Halle airport and serves as a competence centre for transport, transport preparation, temporary storage, and transport follow-up of active and passive temperature controlled pharmaceutical products. Investment volumes in the new facility amount to around EUR 3.4 million.

“The new logistics centre will be integrated into our global network for temperature sensitive air freight shipments as DHL Thermonet station. As a competence centre for the pharmaceutical industry it meets our high global standards. Leipzig is a strategically important location for us – not just in Germany, but also the neighbouring countries,” said Volker Oesau, CEO DHL Global Forwarding Middle Europe, at the opening ceremony.

The facility includes a 2,175 m² warehouse and office space of 600 m². In July 2014, it was certified in accordance with the good distribution practice guidelines, a quality system for logistics centres that handle medicinal products, and offers two temperature controlled areas for pharmaceutical products that must be kept at a constant temperature between either 2 to 8 degrees or 15 to 25 degrees Celsius The facilities are equipped with numerous temperature and humidity sensors that immediately sound an alarm should conditions fall outside of established parameters.

DHL Global Forwarding, together with its customer Octapharma, designed the new pharmaceutical cold storage facility and is responsible for comprehensively managing the transport and warehousing of active and passive air freight shipments. „Our products based on human plasma have to be delivered to customers reliably, fast and on time, without fluctuations in temperature,“ said Marc Rechsteiner, Global Senior Director of Operational Excellence at Octapharma. „We are delighted to have found in DHL a logistics partner that is versed in industry requirements and can ensure that our air freight products are stored, handled and distributed in accordance with statutory regulations.“

In the future, thirty employees will organize the transport and customs clearance of air freight and ocean freight shipments mostly for regional customers. The logistics center will also serve as an air freight transshipment hub for pharmaceuticals going to Germany, Poland and Slovakia. On-site staff will coordinate transport solutions for the automotive, chemical and technology industries as well as the life sciences and healthcare sectors.

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