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Let's keep your momentum going
Let's keep your momentum going

Our full-service logistics and storage solutions help you seamlessly deliver innovation.

We manage the logistics for your most precious innovations. And we don’t take that responsibility lightly. Across our global network of dedicated team members, we monitor the safety and integrity of your product proactively, ensuring it reaches patients without delay. We plan for contingencies, so you don’t have to, leveraging our global capabilities and local, on-the-ground knowledge to navigate logistics complexities. Our innovative distribution services for medications, including rare, orphan, and gene therapies, are customized and scalable to fit your product’s needs.

We go the extra mile to ensure increased supply chain efficiency, maximum return on investment, and enhanced patient care.
50+
countries with dedicated teams on the ground
4,000+
team members
120+
company-owned facilities globally

Managing biopharmaceutical complexities with care

From clinical to commercial, your product is protected at every step.  Discover a logistics solution that supports your organization and delivers your product to patients around the world:

 

Cell and gene therapy

From development, collection, manufacturing, and infusion back into a patient, we map out the intricate logistics of cell and gene therapies while securing product integrity and patient safety.

Clinical trial logistics

Alongside our clients, we design and execute customized, comprehensive medical logistics programs for clinical trials in all phases of development, from research to commercialization.

Comparator sourcing

If there is any doubt as to the integrity of a drug, it can jeopardize a trial and have significant implications. Leveraging our industry relationships, we meet manufacturers’ need for product integrity, simplicity, and fair pricing by sourcing trusted comparator products for clinical trial use.

Direct-to-Patient

We improve treatment accessibility by bringing medications directly into patients’ homes, whether for at-home clinical trials or commercial distribution through our medical courier capability.

Laboratory logistics

By connecting your lab to our hybrid transport service with select integrator partners, you can harness our strengths to bring performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness to your central lab’s transport needs.

Packaging solutions

Our clients are shipping more medical material over longer distances than ever before. A successful delivery is contingent on selecting the right packaging for the specific conditions that will be encountered on the route.

Pharmaceutical storage and distribution

With 22 depots positioned strategically in global markets, we offer pharmaceutical storage and distribution services for both commercial and clinical trial applications, and we maintain compliance with international guidelines including GMP and GDP.
Not all services are available in all regions, please get in touch with us to find out more about how we can support your business.
 

Cell and gene therapy

From development, collection, manufacturing, and infusion back into a patient, we map out the intricate logistics of cell and gene therapies while securing product integrity and patient safety.

Direct-to-Patient

We improve treatment accessibility by bringing medications directly into patients’ homes, whether for at-home clinical trials or commercial distribution through our medical courier capability.

Laboratory logistics

By connecting your lab to our hybrid transport service with select integrator partners, you can harness our strengths to bring performance, reliability and cost-effectiveness to your central lab’s transport needs.

Order-to-cash

ICS is committed to getting care into the hands of those who need it most. We offer full order-to-cash services to our manufacturer partners, providing valuable expertise and a scalable 3PL infrastructure.

Packaging solutions

Our clients are shipping more medical material over longer distances than ever before. A successful delivery is contingent on selecting the right packaging for the specific conditions that will be encountered on the route.

Pharmaceutical storage and distribution

With 22 depots positioned strategically in global markets, we offer pharmaceutical storage and distribution services for both commercial and clinical trial applications, and we maintain compliance with international guidelines including GMP and GDP.

Title Model

Accelerating speed to market, reducing risk, and expediting cash flow. Title Model solutions are a unique way to realize revenue.
Not all services are available in all regions, please get in touch with us to find out more about how we can support your business.

"Each interaction reminded me why I demand my organization utilize World Courier. I truly appreciate the level of service and expertise that I am consistently presented with."

— Jeff Cannon, Materials Manager, Vical Incorporated
World Courier provides a different level of care

Providing a different level of care

World Courier provides a different level of care
Our unmatched global network is made up of unmatched people. Over the course of their training, our highly educated team members have hands-on experience and are assigned a mentor with seasoned expertise. Providing strategic counsel and diligent execution, we’re an extension of your team — a touchpoint that spans from the back office to the warehouse, and from pickup to transport and delivery. We share a commitment to excellence. Most of all, our team members believe in what we do.
World Courier provides a different level of care

Navigating customs complexities

With mission-critical material in transit, the last thing you need is an extensive delay at customs resulting in a temperature excursion. Together with our specialist internal team at World Customs Brokerage, we plan for every regulatory contingency so that your shipment arrives on time and within range. In addition to staying current with regulatory changes, we can also mobilize our global network of World Courier associates to advocate for your shipment in the local language, and often face-to-face.
World Courier implements GxP requirements based on their strictest possible interpretation

GxP

A higher standard of compliance

Good practice (GxP) guidelines help businesses make products that are safe and fit for use. All parts of our business, from transport and storage processes to our depots themselves, comply fully with GxP standards. Unlike some logistics providers, we implement GxP requirements based on their strictest possible interpretation.

Streamlining the supply chain

Global courier tracking technology

Our global courier tracking technology

Our proprietary ordering, tracking and inventory management solutions provide meaningful insights and visibility for your shipments at all touchpoints across the clinical trial and commercial logistics supply chain.

World Courier global depot network

Global depot network

Our 22 depots are strategically located in global markets and offer vital services for both commercial and clinical supply chain support, increasing manufacturer reach for global clinical trials.

3PL specialty logistics pharmaceutical distribution center

3PL specialty logistics pharmaceutical distribution center – U.S. market  

3PL distribution center infrastructure with more than one million square feet of managed warehouse space across three strategic locations in the U.S., designed to accommodate products across a variety of temperature, handling, and storage needs.

A cocoon shipping container sits inside a large climate chamber inside CORE Labs.

CORE Labs

Our innovative researchers at the Climate Optimization Research and Engineering (CORE) Labs respond to customer requirements by developing temperature-control solutions through data-driven research.

Experience the World Courier difference for yourself

Experience the World Courier difference for yourself