Pharma shippers pool resources under Panalpina plan

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Panalpina is urging its healthcare customers to share transport, while forging new intermodal routes for less urgent pharmaceutical shipments, in an attempt to cut shippers’ logistics bills. The first route, from Europe to countries in Latin America including Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, will use air, road and ocean freight, while it is also working on an intermodal route from the US to Latin America.

The initiative began a year ago, when Panalpina identified that pharmaceutical manufacturers would be able to ...