How Delivering Large Temperature-sensitive Products Need Planning, Coordination, & Quality Service

Planning and procedures proved to be vital for a recent massive Dangerous Goods (DG) shipment from China to the United States, which also required the cold chain be maintained for the duration of transportation.

A medical company in Jiangsu Province needed to move 40 drums of pharmaceuticals weighing 8,614 kilograms (50 cubic metres) to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The drums were covered with thermal blankets and were delivered from Jiangsu to a warehouse at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport in refrigerated trucks.