The global vaccine supply chain involves a lot of movement with exports from only a few manufacturing countries and imports around the world. This is currently creating huge opportunities for logistic services providers.

1. Global Vaccine Logistics Services Market Experiencing Robust Growth
The global vaccine supply chain involves a lot of movement with exports from only a few
manufacturing countries and imports around the world. This is currently creating huge
opportunities for logistic services providers.
Robust vaccine sales, temperature sensitivity, global immunization programs and increasing
exports are expected to be the catalysts in driving the global vaccine logistic services market in
the coming years. Research firm IMARC Group expects this market to experience double digit
growth rates during 2012-2017, according to its latest report titled “Global Healthcare Cold
Chain Logistics Market Report & Forecast: 2012-2017”. The report which has done a
comprehensive analysis on the cold chain requirements and opportunities for healthcare
products expects the global vaccine market to exceed sales worth USD 44 billion by 2017,
creating a huge demand for cold chain logistic services. According to an analyst at IMARC
Group, “vaccine production is concentrated, whereas its consumption is diversified across the
world. As a result, the global vaccine supply chain involves a lot of movement with exports from
only a few manufacturing countries and imports around the world. The extensive transport of
vaccines around the globe is currently creating huge opportunities for logistic services
providers”.
The report, an updated and far more analytical version of our popular 2011 study, found that
vaccines are highly temperature sensitive and must be stored and transported at well defined
temperatures. The ideal storage and transportation temperatures of vaccines range from 2-8°C.
Any failure in the cold chain distribution of vaccines can render them useless and even worse
can lead to serious health problems to the patient that is being administered that drug. Cold
chain breaks in the storage and transportation of vaccines in the past has led to their huge
wastage in various immunization programmes. It is estimated that around 25% of all vaccines
arrive at their final destination in a degraded state.
The study, that has been undertaken using both desk based and 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 third aspect involves the quantification of the global
healthcare cold chain logistic services market and a comprehensive evaluation of its various
segments.

2. 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 (2012-2017)
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

3. 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.
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: +91-120-415-5099
IMARC Group North America
Email: america@imarcgroup.com
Phone: +1-631-791-1145
IMARC Group Europe, Middle East & Africa
Email:ema@imarcgroup.com
Phone: +44-702-409-7331
To know more please visit: http://www.imarcgroup.com/global-healthcare-cold-chain-logistics-
market-report-forecast-2012-2017/
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