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shipments, ensuring both controlled
room temperature (CRT) (+15°C to
+25°C) and cold storage (COL) (+2°C to
+8°C) requirements are met.
"If we observe a higher share of
CRT compared to COL, particularly
in India, it’s not necessarily indicative SEPTEMBER
of a market shift. Rather, it reflects
GMP and GDP requirements as 11 2025
well as healthcare mandates at
the destination, which call for
temperature-controlled environments Mumbai
for pharmaceutical products. It also
stems from the nature of the drugs
Technology is critical to DP World’s being produced and exported. The rise
pharma operations, ensuring reliability, in CRT shipments from India highlights
visibility, and efficiency across the the broader success and expansion
supply chain. Chauhan says: "We utilise of Indian pharmaceutical exports,
IoT-enabled sensors, real-time tracking especially for generics and other
and warehouse management system stable formulations that dominate the
(WMS), integrated with customer country’s product mix."
systems, to enhance visibility, predict Over the past two years, Maersk has
disruptions and proactively manage built a robust team of approximately
risks. To comply with the Central 250-300 GDP-trained professionals
Drugs Standard Control Organisation across various functions globally.
(CDSCO) regulations for temperature- This specialised team has been
sensitive products like vaccines, we instrumental in the rapid growth of
ensure storage and transport within the pharmaceutical solutions and
specific temperature ranges (2°C to Rigorous temperature expanding customer base.
8°C), maintaining proper humidity and monitoring isn't just “The ground teams of Maersk
contamination control. Our central about logistics – it's implement critical interventions through
control tower in Bangalore manages a comprehensive monitoring system,”
cargo inflow and outflow while about ensuring that says Agarwal. “This includes regular
monitoring vehicle temperatures for life-saving medications RCM operational monitoring to detect
smooth operations." reach patients in and address any setpoint discrepancies,
Guha of Jeena Criticare says: perfect condition. managing alarm notifications, and
"Technology is the backbone of our conducting proactive terminal and
operations. From advanced temperature Ashish Agrawal vessel notifications. The team performs
and humidity monitoring systems to Maersk systematic manual monitoring
real-time shipment tracking, technology and follow-up for any temperature
ensures the integrity and safety of deviations, particularly focusing on
sensitive pharmaceutical products exporters in India and globally, unattended off-power alarms. For
throughout the supply chain. Automated Etihad Cargo has implemented containers that may experience IoT Global Pharma Logistics Summit (GPLS) is back with
alerts and live dashboards provide several targeted improvements device or network connectivity issues,
transparency and control for clients, to PharmaLife, adds Srinivasan. our Cold Chain Hypercare team works its eighth edition here in Mumbai again.
ensuring operational efficiency. By "These include launching a dedicated directly with local teams to capture We bring together the pharmaceutical companies and their logistics
leveraging cutting-edge innovations, pharma development programme manual temperature readings.” service providers under one single umbrella for the one-day conference.
we address the unique challenges of to improve the capabilities of our Pre-packed, temperature-controlled
critical healthcare logistics, making teams, introducing IATA CEIV Pharma- & time critical transportation services RIGHT CONTENT RIGHT PEOPLE RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME
technology indispensable to our mission certified infrastructure and deploying are receiving the maximum response
of excellence.” cool dollies to ensure temperature from customers, adds Guha of Jeena
consistency. Additionally, we’ve Criticare. "The ability to maintain
Changing needs, expanded our Abu Dhabi hub’s cold precise conditions for sensitive
changing operations chain capabilities to meet the exacting healthcare products has become a
To better support pharmaceutical needs of India’s pharmaceutical critical requirement, and our expertise
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