UPS Preparing to Help Ship, Store Covid-19 Vaccines
24 Novembre 2020 - 7:34PM
Dow Jones News
By Chris Wack
United Parcel Service said Tuesday that it was making service
enhancements to aid in the massive distribution efforts for
Covid-19 vaccines in the coming months.
The shipping company said that as part of these enhancements,
UPS Healthcare now can produce up to 1,200 pounds of dry ice per
hour in its U.S. facilities to support the storage and
transportation of cold chain products, such as frozen vaccines, in
accordance with manufacturer storage requirements.
The increased production also allows UPS to make dry ice
available for U.S. and Canadian hospitals, clinics and other points
of care requiring dry ice to store vaccines locally. Dry ice will
be sourced at UPS Worldport and can be available next day.
UPS said a major spike in demand is causing logistics providers
to plan for what some analysts fear may be a dry ice shortage, as
pharmaceutical companies strategize getting hundreds of millions of
their vaccine doses safely to communities around the U.S. and
internationally.
In addition to dry ice production, UPS also will launch, in
collaboration with Stirling Ultracold, a joint effort to provide
portable ultra-low temperature freezers. These portable freezers
will be distributed and used in smaller point-of-care facilities
requiring a more permanent solution for longer term freezer
storage. UPS will be working with Stirling to offer the Stirling
ULT25 and Undercounter Model SU105 to thermally protect critical
vaccines requiring ultra-low temperatures ranging anywhere from -20
degrees Celsius to -80 degrees Celsius.
UPS Healthcare operates 128 facilities in 32 countries, and
services include inventory management, temperature-controlled
packaging and shipping, storage and fulfillment of medical devices,
labs and clinical trial logistics.
Write to Chris Wack at chris.wack@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 24, 2020 13:19 ET (18:19 GMT)
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