Geodis has opened its first dedicated healthcare cold chain cross-dock facility in the Americas, in Chicago, Illinois. It features a custom-built 5,200-square-foot temperature-controlled facility exclusively dedicated to healthcare products, providing short-term stowage and specialized handling for pharmaceutical air and ocean exports and imports.
It is a bonded CFS facility near O’Hare International Airport, and allows the forwarder to maintain end-to-end internal control over temperature-sensitive healthcare cargo as it moves through its network, which includes 170 countries and a growing map of certified facilities.
The branch is a Certified Cargo Screening Facility (CCSF) for exports and also has IATA’s Center of Excellence for Independent Validators in Pharmaceutical Logistics (CEIV Pharma) certification, Geodis also holds this certification at its facilities in Atlanta, New York and Los Angeles.
The space is divided into two separate temperature-controlled zones – 4,600 sq ft at 15-25 degrees Celsius, and 600sq ft at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius.
