Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Logistics Services - DP World
Healthcare and Pharmaceutical DP World

Healthcare

We move lifesaving medicines and supplies with full visibility and control, via a GDP-compliant network that meets strict quality standards for vital healthcare and trade supply chains worldwide.

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BUILT FOR RESILIENCE, DESIGNED FOR CARE

We provide end-to-end healthcare logistics that safeguard the integrity of pharmaceuticals and MedTech supplies across global supply chains. With ISO 13485-certified sites, GDP-compliant warehousing, and operations in 75+ countries, we ensure quality, compliance and control as well as the scale and control for patient care right through from cold chain storage to hospital deployment.

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Healthcare DP World
Healthcare DP World

OUR HEALTHCARE LOGISTICS SERVICES

Warehouse

We help healthcare providers, pharma firms and NGOs deliver temperature-sensitive and generic, as well as drugs and critical MedTech, safely. Our GDP-compliant network spans warehousing, cold chain, white glove handling and multimodal transport to guarantee compliance, visibility and continuity throughout every stage of your global supply chain.

OUR WORK IN NUMBERS

40 GDP-compliant sites

Manage 40 GDP-compliant storage sites with 300,000 m² of healthcare-certified space

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200+ freight forwarding offices

Operate over 200 freight forwarding offices connecting our global supply chain network

1 million+

Produced and delivered over 1 million humanitarian medical kits to over 40 countries

INSIGHTS

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Making healthcare equity a reality

Making healthcare equity a reality

Healthy societies transform economies. Yet the pandemics of the past few years demonstrated that our healthcare infrastructure is not strong enough to make this a sustainable reality – particularly for developing markets.

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Future of medical supply chain

The future of the medical supply chain

Supply chain flexibility is key to personalised healthcare in the future.

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What's next for the PPE supply chain

What's next for the PPE supply chain?

PPE is vital in the COVID-19 pandemic and logistics proved to be key in delivering this equipment around the world.

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DP World case study: transforming HIV care in Africa

By partnering with our customer in India and the South African Department of Health, we built a bonded warehouse in Pretoria, South Africa, to manage time-sensitive Antiretroviral shipments across 14 African countries. This helped communities – including Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo – meet their 90-90-90 targets for HIV testing, treatment and viral load suppression.

FAQ’s

We tailor our end-to-end logistics solutions to meet the different sectors of the healthcare industry, including generics, innovators, medtech and humanitarian aid. These services encompass multimodal logistics, market access, freight forwarding, last-mile delivery, trade finance, and more.

We support a wide range of healthcare sectors, including MedTech, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals – covering both generic pharmaceuticals and innovative treatments. Our tailored medicine logistics and biotech logistics solutions span everything from advanced diagnostic equipment to time-sensitive transport of critical therapies.

DP World have over XX years of expertise in managing the transport of all temperature ranges from +25°C to -190°C. We adhere to the highest global standards with 40 GDP and GSP certified sites, offering best-in-class cold chain logistics pharmaceuticals and temperature-sensitive transport. Our secure infrastructure, combined with ISO and TAPA certifications, ensures your products are handled with care from origin to delivery.

We offer full medical equipment logistics to hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities. Our services include fulfilment, reverse logistics, repair and service parts, transport and installation and white glove services – not to mention other value add-ons – for large medical equipment. We also manage product staging, testing and installation.

We are proud partners to the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, and pride ourselves in helping these organisations to be agile and responsive to all crisis situations. Our capabilities include procurement, consolidation, kitting, distribution, and rapid response from multiple hubs, made possible thanks to our globally connected network.

DP World delivers end-to-end logistics solutions for innovative and high-value therapies that have temperature-sensitive transport needs. Our global network supports cold chain logistics pharmaceuticals with real-time visibility, compliant temperature packaging, and specialised warehouses in pharmaceutical industry hubs for faster customs clearance. We enable secure last-mile delivery and access to hard-to-reach markets, helping pharmaceutical innovators bring life-saving treatments to market quickly and safely.

DP World is actively decarbonising healthcare logistics through fleet electrification, renewable-powered facilities and optimised transport planning. From solar-enabled warehouses to low-emission last-mile delivery, our medicine logistics and cold chain logistics pharmaceuticals operations are engineered to cut carbon and align with global sustainability targets.