What Is New: UPS Healthcare has opened a 8,700 m2 facility in west Singapore that offers additional services like packaging, labelling, returns logistics, and local customs brokerage.
Why It Matters: Singapore now has more than 19,000 m2 of temperature-controlled warehouse space to better support the growing healthcare market in the Asia-Pacific region.
UPS Healthcare today announced the official opening of a new SGD 27.3 million purpose-built facility in the west of Singapore to support the current and future logistics needs of businesses in the country's growing healthcare sector.
The 8,700 square metre facility, which is located at Gul Circle, within easy reach of PSA Terminals, the manufacturing cluster at Tuas Biomedical Park and the site of the future seaport at Tuas, is capable of storing healthcare products in temperatures ranging from -80 degrees to 25 degrees Celsius. Compliant with all GDPMDS, ISO 13485 and GMP certification standards, it is also able to provide additional value-added services such as packaging, labelling, returns logistics and local customs brokerage.
The facility also nearly doubles UPS' overall healthcare warehousing space in Singapore to more than 19,000 square metres, adding to the company's dedicated healthcare facility at the Airline Logistics Park of Singapore (ALPS).
‘By expanding our healthcare logistics footprint into the west of Singapore, we strengthen our ability to manage and combine both ocean and air shipments and support the country's ambitions of becoming a regional distribution centre for the pharmaceutical industry’, said Ianne Loh, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, UPS Healthcare.
‘Data from UPS' intra-Asia study, which was released earlier this year, shows that the region's healthcare sector plays a key role to play in achieving the full potential of its trade growth by 2030. Our experience as a world leader in complex healthcare logistics ensures businesses in Singapore can access the services they need while, most importantly, giving patients the peace of mind knowing that their critical healthcare treatment and devices are in safe hands."
The opening of the new facility is the latest in a series of recent developments by UPS to increase the range of its healthcare logistics services portfolio in Singapore. In late 2022, the company announced the launch in Singapore of UPS Premier, the company's highly specialised, best-in-class service for customers shipping time-sensitive, temperature-sensitive and patient-critical products. UPS Premier uses state-of-the-art RFID sensors built into the parcel labelling to narrow visibility down to three metres within the UPS network.
The company also recently expanded its logistics hub at Changi Airport to near double its parcels handling capacity. The expansion included the installation of temperature-controlled storage, cooler and freezer capabilities to allow temperature-sensitive healthcare products to be safely stored onsite while in transit.
About UPS Healthcare
UPS Healthcare delivers unparalleled healthcare logistics expertise to its customers around the world. UPS Healthcare has 11+ million square feet of cGMP and GDP-compliant healthcare distribution space globally. Its services include inventory management, cold chain packaging and shipping, storage and fulfilment of medical devices, and lab and clinical trial logistics. UPS Healthcare's global infrastructure, its UPS® Premier visibility service, its track and trace technology, and its global quality system are well-suited to meeting today's complex logistics demands for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and laboratory diagnostic industries.
