Press release
TNT Express Establishes China's Largest Clinical Trial Delivery Network
100% coverage of clinical trial bases nationwide
(November 2nd， 2011， Shanghai) TNT Express announces that it has successfully established the largest delivery network for clinical trials in China. With 100% coverage in over 50 cities covering nearly 400 clinical trial bases recognized by the State Food and Drug Administration， TNT is committed to providing quality delivery services for sophisticated life sciences.
Leveraging its network， TNT can collect various clinical trial samples in these bases and deliver them to central labs within 24-48 hours. With a strict delivery time guarantee， temperature control， and TNT's industry-leading Special Services model， TNT effectively ensures safe， timely and quality delivery of perishable life science shipments to meet customers’ logistics needs for clinical trials.
Peter Langley， Managing Director of TNT Greater China International Express explained， "We are delighted that TNT Express has made such a big progress in offering nation-wide one-stop delivery solutions to clinical trial customers in China， facilitating their growth in clinical experiments and life sciences."
Delivery for clinical trials is demanding in terms of the importance of timeliness， in-transit temperature control， as well as packaging. With global experience in this area， TNT provides delivery services to cover the whole process of clinical trials by utilizing centralized scheduling and dispatching as well as utilizing dynamic delivery network management. TNT delivers a wide range of materials for clinical trials including bio samples such as blood， urine， human tissue， testing drugs， lab manuals， testing kits， and test result reports. Various transport temperature options are available including ambient (15-25 Celsius)， frozen (below -20 Celsius)， and cold (2-8 Celsius)， catering to the nature of different materials. Customers have access to information about their shipments via online portals making the delivery tracking only a few mouse clicks away.
In addition， TNT life sciences services offer a one-stop solution to the pharmaceutical industry by providing international delivery of medicine， medical equipment， medical apparatuses and instruments as well as cold-chained vaccines. Thanks to the comprehensive delivery network across the globe， TNT Express can provide door-to-door delivery for clinical trial goods from China to destinations in Asia and Europe (or vice versa) within 48-72 hours.
TNT Express， with more than 13-years of specialized experience， is a market leader in life sciences delivery services. It delivers over 1 million samples each year， 120，000 of which are frozen packaging. This March， at the 4th BioPharma Asia Convention， the largest gathering of Asia life sciences， TNT was voted by customers as the "Best Life Science Logistics Service Provider."
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