In the logistics and transportation of food, chemicals, and medical supplies, the transportation temperature is often required. In order to ensure product quality and reduce losses, cold chain logistics transportation is essential. Since the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, with the technological upgrading of scientific research, cold chain logistics and transportation have quietly undergone qualitative changes.

Cold chain logistics is a systematic project, in which the freezing of cold boxes requires a specific low temperature environment in all links. It is based on the freezing process and uses refrigeration technology as a means, and is a continuous low temperature process. Therefore, the country has relatively high requirements for cold chain logistics, and stipulates that scientific and effective methods must be implemented, and more management and capital investment than normal temperature logistics.

Among all medical drugs, those that require cold chain transportation include vaccines, biological agents, and diagnostic agents. In 2019 alone, the sales of medicines that require cold chain transportation are 110 billion yuan. Experts predict that the sales of this industry will increase by at least 15% in the next few years, and it is sustainable. Vaccines account for nearly half of the sales, which is about 45 billion yuan. 60% of the first-class vaccines provided by the government are used for children. As the number of newborns decreases, the sales of first-class vaccines are expected to change. However, there is still room for the development of second-class vaccines. For example, in recent years, the price of HPV9 and various vaccines have developed rapidly, even in short supply. Driven by second-class vaccines, the entire vaccine industry will drive the development of the medical supplies industry.

Therefore, compared with the food and beverage cold chain, the medical cold chain has higher technical requirements, especially in the case of stricter temperature control during the entire process, the cold chain transportation of medicines involves strict operating procedures. Moreover, the medical cold chain has high requirements for computerization. According to the logistics resource data of 941 pharmaceutical companies in the medical logistics database of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, more than 90% of the medical cold chain companies in China are equipped with electronic systems such as automatic transportation temperature monitoring systems. equipment.

The medical cold chain industry has high thresholds and a large amount of initial investment, and requires a specific customer base to support new business acquisitions. However, nowadays, many companies have also made improvements to the medical cold chain transportation, with fairly complete facilities to ensure that drugs are not accidentally transported, and have made great contributions to the entire medical industry.

Source: Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Alliance