Nippon Express (Belgium) acquires GDP certification for facility in Brussels Airport's cargo area

Nippon Express (Belgium), a group company of Nippon Express Holdings, Inc., has obtained Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification effective December 21, 2021, for air and ground forwarding operations, inclusive of inventory control, at a facility in the cargo area of Brussels Airport, that is evidence of its compliance with GDP standards for the proper distribution of pharmaceuticals.

Belgium has recently become a hub for pharmaceutical manufacturing and development, hosting numerous global pharmaceutical companies as well as contract manufacturing organizations, vaccine manufacturers, and biotechnology research laboratories. NX Belgium has signed a business partnership agreement with Medexi, a company that specializes in pharmaceutical transport, and has obtained GDP certification for operations at a Medexi-owned temperature-controlled 2,000m2 facility dedicated to pharmaceutical products that are capable of both refrigerated (2℃-8℃) and constant-temperature (15℃-25℃) storage. Medexi's pharmaceutical knowledge and advanced operational quality are expected to be combined with the NX Group's international temperature-controlled transport services and warehouse storage functions to provide customers with a pharmaceutical logistics platform.

The NX Group will continue stepping up its initiatives in the pharmaceutical industry, identified as a priority industry in the group's business plan, and in globally enhancing and expanding its services to meet the increasingly sophisticated and diversified pharmaceutical transport needs of its customers, cited a recent press statement.