UPS takes over British healthcare logistician Polar Speed

UPS continues expansion of its healthcare segment and enhances temperature-sensitive solutions in Europe

UPS announced it has completed the purchase of U.K.-based Polar Speed, a specialised provider of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical supply chain solutions in the U.K. The acquisition further strengthens UPS’s healthcare network across Europe, providing healthcare companies access to a single source for logistics solutions across the continent.

Polar Speed provides customer-oriented services for pharmaceutical logistics. The company specialises in temperature-controlled deliveries to hospitals, pharmacies, wholesalers and surgery centres as well as to patients directly. Polar Speed also offers unique capabilities within the growing homecare direct-to-consumer delivery market. Its customers include some of the best known pharmaceutical brands in the world.

Polar Speed utilises a fleet of 118 monitored temperature-controlled vehicles for transporting both 2-8°C refrigerated, and 15-25°C products in accordance with U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) guidelines. The fleet is equipped with sophisticated technology, including on-board temperature recorders and alarms to alert drivers of potential temperature excursions as well as a PolarTrack, an online portal linked to a satellite navigation system allowing customers to access real-time delivery status and temperature conditions of their products.

This acquisition adds three facilities with advanced warehousing management systems, full quality assurance services, and an experienced workforce to UPS’s global healthcare network, now totalling 45 healthcare facilities. There are dedicated healthcare distribution centres in the Benelux area, Central and Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, the Iberian Peninsula and the United Kingdom.

Quelle: LogEastics
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