- DHL bondedwarehouse to provide constant temperature between 2-8°C , certified by the JakartaGovernment's meteorology agency
- Warehouseservices, including in-house customs handling with extended clearance times to improvesupply chain efficiency for life sciences industry
JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Media OutReach - 2August 2018 - A newtemperature-controlled bonded warehouse has been launched in Jakarta by DHLGlobal Forwarding, the leading international provider of air, sea and roadfreight services. This will help Indonesia's life sciences industry optimize theirsupply chains aheadof rapid projected growth.
The facility is built with first grade Mills Test certifiedmaterials from PT.NS BlueScope Indonesia,a subsidiary of leading international steelmaker BlueScope Steel. Additionally, world-classcooling technology which is certified by the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology,Climatology, and Geophysics for best-practice temperature control will givemanufacturers and distributors a storage environment of 2-8°C.
The DHLBonded Warehouse will provide life sciences and healthcare customers a range ofservices designed to speed up and streamline movements of sensitive cargo. Thisincludes in-house customs clearance even after the standard 4pm cut-off time,and automatic SMS notifications designed to speed up onsite DHL teams' responseto critical shipment events.
"Indonesia'spharmaceutical market is projected to grow by 10% per annum to be worth more than US$12 billion by 2022,[1]driven largely by growth in the domestic market for generic drugs andincreasingly accessible healthcare country-wide.[2]This creates significant opportunities for both multinational and domestic lifesciences operators to scale up their operations," said Vincent Yong, PresidentDirector, DHL Global Forwarding Indonesia. "This new bonded warehouse is ourlatest investment in the logistics infrastructure needed to fully capitalize onthose opportunities while boosting the quality of medicines, devices, and othermedical goods that Indonesia's people have access to."
DHLGlobal Forwarding already plans to roll out additional value-added services tofurther reduce shipment time and labor requirements, including final-miledelivery, packaging and end-to-end supply chain solutions.
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