DHL Global Forwarding has opened a new 500sqm refrigerated warehouse at Vienna Airport, desgined to handle temperature sensitive products shipped by the pharemuctical and Life Sciences industries.

The Competence Center is expected to ship roughly 20,000 pallets annually and will be a central distribution point for DHL's European time senstive products market. To ensure the quality of sensitive goods, each product is marked for placement in a specific temperature banding.

These temperature zones range between 2-8 ┬░ Celsius and 15 ┬░-25 ┬░ Celsius. Alongside its warehousing service, DHL Global Forwarding will also provide loading and unloading of refrigerated containers, packing of products, coordination of the freight space and organisation of the necessary transport equipment.

"Our new Life Science Competence Center is of particular importance for our customers in the drug and medical device industries, since it offers solutions tailored to their specific needs. We're expanding our global cold chain network. We've also created excellent conditions for our customers to tie into global retail markets," said Ronald Friedreich, managing director DHL Global Forwarding Austria.

The facility is expected to transship roughly 20,000 pallets annually. Alongside its warehousing service, DHL Global Forwarding also offers loading and unloading of refrigerated containers, packing of products, coordination of the freight space and organization of the necessary transport equipment.

Starting this summer, DHL Freight's product LTL ColdChain Europe, a pan-European road freight pallet network dedicated to the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry, will be connected with the Vienna Competence Center.