Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market Size By Product Type (Vaccines, Clinical Trial Materials), By Services (Storage, Transportation), By Storage Techniques (Electrical refrigeration, Dry ice), By End-User (Biopharmaceutical companies, Hospitals and clinics), By Geographic Scope And Forecast

Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market Size And Forecast

Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market size was valued at USD 16,835.76 Million in 2021 and is projected to reach USD 25,497.61 Million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 4.72% from 2023 to 2030.

The Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market will display solid development for quite a long time. An assortment of drug items requires a controlled climate to keep up their intensity, which makes the cold chain critical leading to better market revenue in the forecasted period. The Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market report provides a holistic evaluation of the market. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of key segments, trends, drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and factors playing a substantial role in the market.

Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market Definition

Healthcare cold chain logistics refers to the method used during storage and shipping to prevent heat-liable biological products from degradation by ensuring a temperature-controlled climate. It helps to protect the integrity, effectiveness, and shelf life of products such as vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, and supplies for clinical trials, including medications, blood samples, and tissue samples. Cold chain packaging and transportation is primarily done by using dry ice, liquid nitrogen, and gel packs. These temperature-regulated materials can be efficiently used for the storage of products at subzero temperatures.

The growing technological developments in the healthcare industry have expanded the use of biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, and clinical trial products that include cold chain logistics for healthcare. In addition, the advent of automation in the industry has decreased the number of human handling errors in the logistics system of the cold chain, which in turn is allowing the global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market to expand.

Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market Overview

Medical care Cold Chain Logistics is acquiring a brisk force directly from assembling to circulation. The cold chain has colossal potential in medical care. Assembling and production networks have consistently stayed a critical area in the medical services area and now, considerably more so as assembling costs wind upwards. The market will display a solid development for quite a long time. An assortment of drug items requires a controlled climate to keep up their intensity, which makes the cold chain critical.

Governments in some of the fast-developing countries are taking corrective measures to improve cold chain logistics services. The Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market is highly competitive with mainly global and regional players operating in the market to survive and succeed in an intensely competitive market environment It is important for the organizations in the market to provide cost-efficient cold chain logistics services. The global market is currently dominated by players such as FedEx, DHL International GmBH, KUEHNE + NAGEL, DB Schenker, and others. In the healthcare cold chain logistics industry, FedEx is one of the leading players. The organization has received a system of consolidations and acquisitions to assemble a solid production network organization.

FedEx offers types of assistance, for example, worldwide express conveyances, warehousing arrangements, for example, bundling, fixes, and capacity, and other modified calculated administrations. What’s more, it likewise gives a worldwide cargo sending via air, ocean, street, and rail. In addition, the organization is centered around an extension of its administrations in different nations to fortify its market position. Moreover, the organization has embraced progressed shipment following and checking techniques alongside innovative bundling decisions to reinforce its medical care cold chain transport. The major share of the market is held by biopharmaceutical companies and is likely to continue its growth.

Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market Segmentation Analysis

The Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market is segmented on the basis of Product Type, Services, Storage Techniques, End-User, and Geography.

Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market, By Product Type

• Biopharmaceuticals
• Vaccines
• Clinical trial materials
• Others

Based on Product Type, the market is segmented into biopharmaceuticals, vaccines, clinical trial materials and others. Vaccines are expected to be the largest segment over the forecasted period. Vaccines have a huge demand all over the world and are an important class of pharmaceuticals. Vaccines usually require temperature control which is acquired through cold chains. Meanwhile, biopharmaceuticals segment is expected to witness the highest CAGR during 2023 to 2030. Opportunities for biopharmaceutical products are created through the rising popularity of targeted therapies, coupled with increased investments in healthcare sector across the globe.

Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market, By Services

• Storage
• Transportation
• Packaging
• Others

Based on Services, the market is segmented into Storage, Transportation, Packaging, and others. The Storage segment dominated the highest market share. Transportation services have a very major role in cold chain logistics. Demand for cold chain transportation services is very high owing to the requirement of special temperature-controlled systems during transportation in ships, trucks, and airplanes. However, the storage segment is expected to remain highly attractive over the foreseen period. In addition, the packaging segment is likely to witness lucrative growth in coming years.

Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market, By Storage Techniques

• Electrical refrigeration
• Dry ice
• Gel packs
• Liquid nitrogen
• Others

Based on Storage Techniques, the market is segmented into electrical refrigeration, dry ice, gel packs, liquid nitrogen, others. Electrical refrigeration has emerged as a dominant segment in 2021. The basic reason for having a refrigerator is to keep medicines cold. Low temperatures help medicine stay efficient longer. The basic idea behind refrigeration is to slow the activity of contamination so that it takes longer for the bacteria to spoil the medicines. The aforementioned pros of electrical refrigeration sis expected to drive the market segment in the forecasted period.

Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market, By End-User

• Biopharmaceutical companies
• Hospitals and clinics
• Research institutes
• Others

Based on End-User, the market is segmented into biopharmaceutical companies, hospitals and clinics, research institutes, and others. Biopharmaceutical companies is expected to be the largest revenue-generating segment. Biopharmaceutical companies manufacture critical medicines which require specific temperatures to function efficiently. For an instance, according to FDA (Food & Drug Administration), global spending on pharmaceutical research and development was valued to be USD 184 Billion in 2018, which has increase to USD 238 Billion in 2021. Hence, transporting the medicines in high-quality cold chain logistics is essential to deliver quality medicines to hospitals. Also rising investments in biopharmaceutical companies on drug discoveries have resulted in better market affordability to use healthcare cold chain logistics services.

Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market, By Geography

• North America
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• Rest of the World

Based on Geography, The Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market is classified into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the world. North America held the largest revenue share and is expected to maintain the lead throughout the forecast period owing to the high investment of the healthcare sector coupled with the presence of a higher number of players in the region. For an instance, according to American Hospital Association, the total number of hospitals in the United States was around 5,141 in 2017, which has increase to 5,262 in 2021. The increased number of hospitals and clinics owing to higher investments in healthcare sectors is expected to drive market growth in the North American region.

Key Players

The “Global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market” study report will provide valuable insight with an emphasis on the global market. The major players in the market are FedEx, DHL (DPSGY), World Courier, United Parcel Service, Kuehne and Nagel, Cavalier Logistics, DB Schenker, Life Conex, American Airlines Cargo, Continental Air Cargo, and others.

Our market analysis also entails a section solely dedicated to such major players wherein our analysts provide an insight into the financial statements of all the major players, along with its product benchmarking and SWOT analysis.

Key Developments

Partnerships, Collaborations and Agreements

• On January 2021, Varcode has partnered with PL Development. The partnerships is expected to boost the efficiency of supply chain logistics especially for healthcare sector.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• On December 2020, FedEx Corp. acquired ShopRunner. The acquisition will enhance the e-commerce capabilities with efficient cold chain logistics required to deliver healthcare products on time.

Product Launches and Product Expansions

• On March 2020, CEVA Logistics have launched a new sub-brand in healthcare segment called CEVA FORPATIENTS. The logistics under this brand will be operational exclusively for healthcare needs such as medicined delivery, organ transfer, and others.

Ace Matrix Analysis

The Ace Matrix provided in the report would help to understand how the major key players involved in this industry are performing as we provide a ranking for these companies based on various factors such as service features & innovations, scalability, innovation of services, industry coverage, industry reach, and growth roadmap. Based on these factors, we rank the companies into four categories as Active, Cutting Edge, Emerging, and Innovators.

Market Attractiveness

The image of market attractiveness provided would further help to get information about the region that is majorly leading in the global Healthcare Cold Chain Logistics Market. We cover the major impacting factors that are responsible for driving the industry growth in the given region.

Porter’s Five Forces

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