Panalpina’s new Singapore logistics center gains GDP certification

Nov 19, 2018: Logistics specialist Panalpina has obtained Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification, for its new logistics center in Singapore, where many of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies have manufacturing facilities. With this, Panalpina is authorised to store, handle and distribute medicines in the local market and to ship them abroad on behalf of pharmaceutical […]

Panalpina’s new Singapore logistics center gains GDP certification
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Nov 19, 2018: Logistics specialist Panalpina has obtained Good Distribution Practice (GDP) certification, for its new logistics center in Singapore, where many of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies have manufacturing facilities.

With this, Panalpina is authorised to store, handle and distribute medicines in the local market and to ship them abroad on behalf of pharmaceutical companies.

The GDP certificate was issued by Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA) following a rigorous inspection.

To be granted GDP certification in Singapore, companies must demonstrate compliance with HSA GDP guidelines, which are based on the most important global guidelines.

“The pharmaceutical sector in Singapore has developed enormously since 2000 and the companies are increasingly outsourcing the logistics for their highly sensitive products,” says Gino Marzola, Panalpina’s managing director for Singapore and Malaysia. “Healthcare supply chains have a zero-fault tolerance, and the GDP certification for our brand-new facility demonstrates that we can meet that requirement. We also give pharmaceutical companies access to a global, quality distribution network for their products.”

According to the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), eight of the top ten pharmaceutical companies have a presence in the city-state, manufacturing four of the top ten drugs by global revenue. In 2016, the sector produced more than S$16 billion worth of products for global markets.

Many pharmaceutical companies demand from third-party logistics providers (3PLs) that the business units that handle their products are certified according to Good Distribution Practice (GDP), a set of guidelines for the proper distribution of medicinal products for human use.

Today, Panalpina has a global coverage of GDP-compliant locations. 32 of the locations, the new logistics center in Singapore included, are GDP-certified and this number is on the increase.

In August this year, the Switzerland-based company has obtained GDP certification for its Bogota center.

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