Pharma & Healthcare
Industry Summary
Pharma & Healthcare is the third leading pillar to critical consumer well-being together with Food, Beverage & Tobacco and Retail & wholesale. The combination of Pharma & healthcare captures the totality of medical appliances, pharmaceuticals, and medicament
- Total Consignees
- 3,190
- Total Shippers
- 2,819
- Total BLS
- 664,952
Industry Details
Pharma flows require more enhanced supply-chain requirements to ensure product safety and integrity, generally pushing higher cargo value on temperature controlled transport. Pharma & Healthcare trade consists of 27 commodity groups with 170 underlying commodities. Top 5 leading commodity groups in TEU volume are 1. Medications & Drugs (215,863 TEU) 2. Medical & Dental Devices (189,601 TEU) 3. Medical Devices (163,990 TEU) 4. Sanitary & Pharma Articles (87,909 TEU) 5. Amino Alcohols (55,031 TEU) Aside of containerized flows a leading part of Pharma & Healthcare is transported via airfreight to ensure compliant transit within safety margins. The leading ports in liftings are SHANG HAI, SHANGHAI, CHINA MAINLAND, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, NAVA SHEVA, NHAVA SHEVA, INDIA, YANTIAN, CHINA MAINLAND where the majority of cargo flows into discharge ports NEWARK, NJ, LOS ANGELES, CA, NORFOLK, VA with carriers MEDITERRANEAN SHIPPING COMPANY S.A. - MSC, HAPAG LLOYD, CMA CGM leading in total volume.