Medical logistics specialist World Courier is continuing to expand its international networkwith its third office in Austria bringing its global network to 152 offices in total.
The new office is located in Innsbruck, western Austria, which is a hub for pharmaceutical andhigh-tech companies. The office is strategically located some 180 kilometres from Munich, southernGermany, which is considered a major European gateway.
The facility is fully equipped with a +5°C walk-in refrigerator cell to handle large containersof temperature-controlled pharmaceuticals. The office also maintains four -26°C freezers, a +20°Ccontrolled ambient area and a warehouse able to accommodate all types of dangerous goods exceptClass 1 (explosives) and Class 7 (radioactive materials) with specialised staff and vehicles.
“Our customers highly appreciate our local presence in Tyrol,” Thomas Hachmann, Country Managerfor World Courier (Austria) GmbH, said. “This close proximity is uncommon in the logistics industrywhere service providers typically manage accounts from neighbouring countries.
“With a local office, we now speak the dialect of our customers and can react very quickly whenit comes to quotations, quality agreements and non-disclosure agreements. Combined with oursuperior service capabilities delivered in a fully GxP-compliant environment and our newtemperature-controlled facilities, we intend to strengthen the relationship with local customersand enhance our position here by offering exceptional value-added service,” he added.
World Courier, the largest specialty logistics provider in the world, operates a company-ownednetwork of 152 ISO 9001-certified offices in 52 countries along with 13 GMP-compliantinvestigational drug storage facilities in key emerging and strategic locations. Its services areutilised by over 500 biopharmaceutical companies including each of the top 50 global players aswell as by all major contract research organisations, clinical trial suppliers and central labs.With its GxP-compliant transport and supply chain system, World Courier meets the most demandingindustry and regulatory requirements for managing the time- and temperature-sensitive consignmentsof regulated and other industries.
In 2012, World Courier was acquired by AmerisourceBergen, one of the world’s largestpharmaceutical services companies, ranked #29 on the Fortune 500 list.
