is a new concept in international pharmaceutical logistics working to Good Transportation Practice.

was born from an affiliation between global independent forwarding companies, each of whom specialise in worldwide logistics for the finished product, API, biomedical, pharmaceutical machinery and clinical trial sectors of the pharmaceutical industry.

The global service is made up of a core group of freight companies, working to procedures based on GxP, namely our own global standard, Good Transportation Practice. Fully GTP trained Responsible Persons manage our pharma operations in each country and operational staff are GTP trained by Pharmafreight's unique mix of online training system and mandatory regional courses. The network is constantly expanding into the more off-line destinations to ensure a truly global delivery service available to the marketplace – with each office offering the same GTP standard of excellence in pharma logistics.

In an audit by the UK’s medicines regulatory authorities in 2001, it was found that temperature control and the monitoring of warehouse storage and the cold chain were the highest areas of critical and major deficiencies reported.

You can be sure that when you give your shipment to a office the strict quality standards you enforce whilst the goods are in your care will be continued once it leaves your hands. The ethos behind Pharmafreight is to operate its services taking into account the many regulations which cover the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmafreight’s standard operating procedures are based on the international regulations covering good pharmaceutical practice. And in particular, GDP, or Good Distribution Practice, prepared in accordance with the EU’s Directive 92/25/EEC, concerning the wholesale distribution of medicinal products for human use.

All staff and offices work to the SOPs laid out in the GDP regulations and more specifically our own GTP guidelines. Staff undergo training to enable them to work in accordance with GTP and to demonstrate a full understanding of procedures undertaken. Temperatures are monitored and recorded (where required); goods are checked and stored under the correct conditions; and shipments are controlled to make sure the goods arrive in the same condition as they left. provides services tailor-made to each client’s special requirements including, of course, total confidentiality.

Within the international forwarding and logistics industry there are increasing trends towards “mega carriers” where clients are not allocated dedicated personnel to deal with their individual needs on a day to day basis. With the group of companies, our clients are paramount and as such, are treated individually with dedicated staff appointed to handle not only day to day operations but also get to know the client’s individual requirements.