The distribution of critical cell samples requires an agile strategy with contingency planning and regulatory expertise to ensure seamless delivery on-time and within specifications.
Marken’s innovative solution to safeguard the transport of urgent samples from Canada to the USA resulted in an overall 42-hour turnaround time (TAT).
Charter flight solutions ensure vital shipment delivered on-time and within specifications.
Ensure safe, on-time delivery of a biological sample shipment with a 48-hour lifespan from Montreal, CA to a lab in Johnson City, TN, USA.
The shipment was delayed by the local service provider (LSP) at the origin location. With no commercial airlines available and no direct flights to the final destination, the time-sensitive shipment lost half of its 48-hour stability lifespan. Alternative routings would cause additional delays, which would completely devitalize the shipment’s efficacy.
Within 24 hours, Marken experts arranged a charter flight to safeguard the transport of the urgent samples and coordinate final mile delivery. Our Regulatory and Trade Compliance Team completed customs requirements while the shipment was in-transit, which allowed the immediate release and handoff of the samples by local officials to a dedicated Marken driver, on standby at the airport.
Marken successfully recovered and transported the shipment to its final destination on-time with an overall 42-hour turnaround time (TAT) delivery performance. Samples arrived at the lab within the crucial vitality window and were able to be processed.
About Marken
Marken is the clinical precision logistics and advanced therapy subsidiary of UPS Healthcare. The UPS Healthcare network consists of 200+ locations worldwide.
Marken offers a state-of-the-art GMP-compliant depot network and logistic hubs for clinical drug product storage and distribution in 46 locations worldwide, while maintaining the leading position for cell and gene therapy services, direct-to-patient and home healthcare services, biological sample shipments and biological kit production. Marken’s dedicated 2,600+ staff members manage 200,000 drug product and biological sample shipments every month at all temperature ranges in more than 220 countries and territories and have orchestrated 17,500+ home healthcare visits. Additional services such as ancillary material sourcing, storage and distribution, shipment lane verification and qualifications, as well as GDP, regulatory and compliance consultancy add to Marken’s unique position in the pharma and logistics industry.
Delivering What Matters From Clinical to Commercial.
