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Greater medicine use leads courier services to offer climate-controlled service to China
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The world’s major courier companies have started offering temperature-controlled transportation services to the Chinese market, largely because of the rapid development and huge potential of pharmaceutical industries in the country.
DHL began offering temperature-controlled railway services between China and Europe yesterday, while Fedex announced it will offer cold storage capability with the expansion of its facility at Shanghai Pudong Interna-tional Airport.
China has become a leading driver of global growth in spending on medicine, said Richard Smith, managing director of Life Sciences & Specialty Services with FedEx Express. The growth generates huge demand for temperature-controlled logistics services for medicine.
China is expected to take the lead and account for 34 percent of the global spending on medicine between 2012 and 2017, with total spending of US$88.4 billion, Smith said. The United States would follow with 16 percent, spending some US$41.6 billion.
A larger Fedex Shanghai hub facility with cold storage capability is expected to open around 2016, he said.
DHL yesterday announced in Shanghai it would launch its temperature-controlled rail service on the China-Europe Railway between Chengdu and Poland.
Railway cars will be able to maintain a temperature between minus 25 degrees Celsius and 25 degrees, mainly to transport medicine and food, said Kelvin Leung, chief executive officer of DHL’s Asia Pacific region.
“There’s an increasing demand for temperature-controlled transportation services for both imports and exports in the Chinese market,” Leung said at a news conference yesterday.
The new railway service is expected to transport some 60 containers every week with medicine, food and elec-tronic devices, he said.
The rapid rise of the pharmaceutical industry is being driven by longer life expectancies in China. China has an average life expectancy of 76 years, comparing with 79 in the United States and 81 in Germany, according to the World Health Organization.
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