UPS is adding a new healthcare distribution center in Roermond, the Netherlands, only a month after opening one in Amsterdam at Schiphol airport. The 28,000-square-meter Roermond facility will have 41,000 pallet places. The facility is scheduled to open in January 2016.
The close proximity to UPS’s European hub at Cologne/Bonn Airport, will mean short transit times, including next-day and two-day service to global destinations. Up to 200 jobs will be created once the facility is fully operational. This brings UPS’s number of dedicated healthcare facilities in the area to three.
The new building, which will be fully compliant with EU Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guidelines and licensed by the Dutch Ministry of Health, will provide inventory management, temperature-sensitive storage and quality-assurance services with a direct feeder connection to UPS’s air hub at the Cologne/Bonn airport.
The company’s global healthcare distribution network now includes more than 50 locations throughout Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and North and South America.