Case Studies

COVID-19 has placed the spotlight on healthcare supply chains. The reduction in air freight capacity, coupled with increases in air freight rates of up to 500 per cent, has made sea freight a more viable alternative. Biocair was approached by one of its customers to manage the sea freight logistics of several large intermodal containers, carrying medical grade face masks from Shanghai to Durban.

In recent years demands for increasingly complex, international and expensive clinical trials have led drug developers to collaborate with specialist couriers to manage their clinical trials supply chain.

With an increasing demand for transporting pharma worldwide, compliance, standardisation, accountability and transparency across the supply chain is essential. Unlike other methods of transport where space is likely to be at a premium, ocean shipping presents a wide range of benefits.

Biocair received a request from a UK-based producer of Molecular Control Panels, to send diagnostic reagents containing Fish Proteins, classed as UN3373, and packed in Dry Ice (-80.C) to Torshavn in the Faroe Islands.

Biocair received a request to ship an entire chemical library from Frankfurt, Germany to South Carolina (US). This library consisted of 1600 microtiter plates of discovery compounds dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide and over 34,500 vials of solid, early stage discovery compounds.

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Biocair received a telephone call on a Friday afternoon from a new client – their sponsor had sent an urgent blood sample with an integrator, which was now being held at the port of export.

Biocair received a request from a UK Research Institute to ship more than 400,000 embryonic mouse stem cells, equivalent to 10 years work, from the UK to China.

Biocair received a request from a new client regarding management of worldwide cold chain shipments to Saudi Arabia. They had previously experienced a 45% failure rate of perishables due to high ambient temperatures in the Kingdom and long lead times which delayed research activity.