The global clinical trials spending has increased significantly in recent years, driving demand for efficient cold chain storage and transportation of temperature sensitive materials between sponsors and contract research organizations located in different countries. This report analyzes the market for these healthcare cold chain logistics services, including quantification of the market for biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, and clinical trial materials. It also examines the cold chain distribution process and requirements for temperature controlled products as well as market size forecasts through 2016. Comprehensive data sources include industry surveys, interviews, and proprietary databases.

1. Increasing Clinical Trail Spending to Create Huge Opportunities for
the Logistics Industry
The demand for efficient storage and transportation of clinical trial materials is expected to increase
robustly in the coming years.
The global clinical trials spending on drugs has increased significantly over the past few years driven by
dwindling drug pipelines and stringent approval guidelines by regulators. IMARC Group, one of the
world’s leading research and advisory firms, in its new report entitled “Global Healthcare Cold Chain
Logistics Market Report & Forecast: 2011-2016” finds that with an increasing spending and
globalization of clinical trials, the demand for efficient storage and transportation of clinical trial materials
have increased significantly over the past few years. A large proportion of clinical trial materials such as
blood samples, tissue samples, certain drug samples, etc are temperature sensitive and require efficient
cold chain handling procedures in transporting them from one place to another. Any temperature
excursions in the cold chain transportation of these products can make them completely useless and lead
to major safety and financial consequences for the company conducting those trials.
Findings from the report also suggest that outsourcing trends in the global clinical trials industry are
increasing rapidly. The increasing trends in clinical trials outsourcing is creating additional steps in the
overall supply chain of clinical trial materials (drugs, blood samples, tissue samples, urine samples,
sputum samples, etc). In many cases, the contract research organizations and their sponsors may be
present in two different countries, this is quite evident from the fact that the number of clinical trials in
many Asian, Latin American and East European countries are increasing rapidly whereas the sponsors
are based in the US and Western Europe. The large distance is currently creating huge requirements for
the efficient cold chain packaging, storage and transportation of clinical trial materials between the clinical
trial sponsor and the contract research organization.
IMARC’s new report entitled “Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market Report & Forecast
(2011-2016)” provides an analytical and statistical insight into the logistic opportunities in the global
healthcare market. The study that has been undertaken using both desk based as well as qualitative
primary market research has analyzed three aspects of the global healthcare cold chain logistics market.
The first aspect involves the quantification of the global market for temperature sensitive healthcare
products into three major classes and evaluation of the current and future opportunities in each of these
classes. The second aspect involves an in-depth understanding on the global healthcare cold chain
distribution process and logistic requirements for various temperature sensitive healthcare products. The
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2. third aspect involves the quantification of the global healthcare cold chain logistic services market and a
comprehensive evaluation of its various segments.
What we have achieved in this report:
Comprehensive Market Analysis of Temperature Sensitive Healthcare Products:
Classes Covered: Biopharmaceuticals, Vaccines & Clinical Trial Materials
Focus of the Analysis in Each Class:
Drivers and challenges
Historical sales trends
Logistic requirements
Impact of temperature excursions
Opportunities in cold chain services
Market outlook (2011-2016)
Understanding the Operations of a Healthcare Cold Chain Distribution Process
Focus of the Analysis:
Understanding the various methods of cold chain distribution and their advantages/disadvantages
Understanding the cold chain requirements for various temperature sensitive healthcare products
and the impact of temperature excursions
Understanding the various costs involved in cold chain transportation and comparing it with non-
cold chain transportation
Understanding the key steps required in the setting and organization of an efficient cold chain
distribution process
Comprehensive Market Analysis of the Healthcare Cold Chain Logistic Services Market
Focus of the analysis:
Quantifying the global healthcare cold chain logistic services market
Quantifying the market size by product
Quantifying the market size by service
Quantifying the market size by region
Information Sources:
Information has been sourced from both primary and secondary sources:
Primary sources include industry surveys and face to face/telephone interviews with industry
experts.
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3. Secondary sources include proprietary databases and search engines. These sources include
company websites and reports, books, trade journals, magazines, white papers, industry portals,
government sources and access to more than 4000 paid databases.
To buy the complete report or to get a free sample, please contact:
IMARC Group Asia
Email: apac@imarcgroup.com
Phone: +91-120-425-6531
IMARC Group North America
Email: america@imarcgroup.com
Phone: +1-631-791-1145
To know more please visit: http://www.imarcgroup.com/
Keywords:
Life science logistics, healthcare logistics, cold chain logistics, logistics market, clinical trail
logistic, cold chain transportation
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