UPS Healthcare

UPS Cold Chain Solutions is purpose-built to provide pharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers and laboratories a full, end-to-end cold chain service offering, including storage and distribution, transportation, visibility, and quality assurance capabilities. 

• Cold chain GMP ...

We help our customers reach their sustainability goals through our various solutions and services and partnerships with humanitarian organizations to deliver healthcare to areas in need.

• Facilities – Our logistics and distribution warehousing facilities feature the latest sustainable facilit...

At UPS Healthcare, we offer freight forwarding services to fit a range of temperature and transportation speed requirements.
• Carrier Procurement – We work with leading air and ocean freight carriers and cold chain container vendors to evaluate your time and temperature needs, negotiate competit...

UPS Premier upgrades critical healthcare shipments with advanced sensor technology that ensures a priority lane in our network.

• Priority Handling – Our sensor labeling system ensures your package will get priority handling at every node in the network as well as preferred delivery services ...

UPS Healthcare, a leading logistics company in supply chain optimisation, has partnered with CPHI Barcelona to support sustainability initiatives, to be highlighted at the CPHI Worldwide event in Barcelona in October 2023. 

Advanced technology provides priority handling for critical healthcare shipments

What’s New: The 100% renewable electric building, will house 23,000 temperature-sensitive pallets, 300 specialized cold chain vehicles, and more.

Why it Matters: The facility will support Polish healthcare customers in one of the fastest growing markets in the world with an annual growth rate of 10%, offering high-quality end-to-end healthcare solutions.

It’s crucial that pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers get products to the patients who need them, when they need them — at the right temperature, in the best condition. From cost management to product protection, UPS Healthcare can help pharmacies and pharmaceutical manufacturers deliver their products around the world.

What’s New: The first healthcare-dedicated facility in Germany features 30,000 temperature-sensitive pallets, an 850,000 kWh solar energy system, and more.

Why it Matters: This 27,200 m2 GMP and GDP-compliant facility will support the UPS Healthcare Frankfurt Air Freight Gateway and European Air Hub facilities and ultimately promote growth across the European healthcare market.

For those who demand more from their supply chain, only Marken provides a best-in-class Quality Management System, Cell and Gene supply chain solutions, a global GMP Depot Network, Direct-to/From-Patient, Home Healthcare nursing services, and industry-leading expertise all under one single-source provider.

COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses and sector faces new challenges driven by rising costs of production in China

Discover how we work with our clinical trials partner, Marken, to provide complete supply chain solutions that streamline and optimize a vaccine's journey from development to distribution across its entire life cycle.

For those who demand more from their supply chain, only Marken, a UPS Company, provides a best-in-class Quality Management System, a global GMP Depot Network, Direct-to/From-Patient, Home Healthcare nursing services, and industry-leading expertise all under one single-source provider.

Take a closer look at the solutions that helped DSMZ optimize their logistics

UPS Healthcare Cold Chain Packaging capabilities

Sustainability is more than a buzzword and drives many decisions made by business leaders today. In this thought leadership blog, Cathy O’Brien, Vice President of International Sales at UPS Healthcare, examines the challenges companies face when incorporating sustainability and what it will take to arrive at a sustainable future.

UPS Healthcare Pickup Point Placard is a solution for labs reverse logistics

Our latest white paper presents insight into six post-pandemic global trends that have transformed the healthcare logistics industry. Healthcare companies today are reimagining their operations to deliver better patient outcomes, reduce costs/complexity, and grow market share.

When quality never wavers, even for an instant... you can completely change your patients’ lives.

The technology upgrade for critical healthcare shipments

See how our cold chain capabilities help get complex pharmaceuticals out to the world safely.

Healthcare supply chains are under constant pressures, whether its political complexities, the unexpected in everyday operations, and, most recently, a worldwide inflation spiral.

Companies can use these pivotal pressures to build a competitive edge. Now is the time to optimize your supply chain through strategic partnerships, allowing you to refocus your internal resources on business objectives and growth while gaining scale and specialized expertise. Building a strong partnership with your logistics provider can give you access to end-to-end capabilities, an integrated global footprint, and a comprehensive portfolio of healthcare solutions – all of which can help you navigate these challenging times.

Join UPS Healthcare’s Samantha Betancourt, head of Global Strategy and Execution, and Todd Snyder, Vice President, Healthcare Solutions and Operations as they discuss how to select your partners while minimizing disruption to service and production.



Click here to register

When specialty pharmacy Lumicera needed to track, monitor, and contingency plan for critical shipments, they turned to UPS Premier.

This webinar provides an inside look at the next-gen technology that’s transforming logistics around the globe. Wanis El Kabbaj, Senior Director of Global Field Marketing, and Jim Poole, UPS Healthcare Strategy Director, both outline innovative technology that is transforming logistics all around the world. Also, Dunja Martin, Compliance Management Leibniz Institute DSMZ GmbH, shares the seamless worldwide shipping of microorganisms and cell cultures.