subject: Making Temperature Controlled Deliveries [print this page] There are many couriers that restrict themselves to shipping only the most basic kinds of goods, essentially documents and papers, and small parcels. There are many businesses and industries through which require the shipping of goods which are more complex than these for transportation, and so they need the help of a Memphis courier service that has the equipment, the training, and the permits to transport these different types of goods. A very good example of a sub-set industry in the courier business is the medical material and pharmaceutical transportation sector. This requires an entirely different set of equipment and training in most cases, but as the pharmaceutical industry in particular is such a high value industry there are numerous couriers that are equipping themselves properly to be able to work in this field.
One of the most important parts of shipping medical supplies and pharmaceuticals is the fact that they must remain temperature controlled at all times. Medical material can include samples from patients that are being shipped for testing, blood, and even more crucial emergency shipments, such as organs. Drugs as well are often temperature sensitive, and can often be totally destroyed if they are allowed to heat up too much. The same certainly goes for the medical material which typically involves very low temperature fluctuation tolerances. Therefore, in order to transport this type of material a courier must have specialty units which are equipped to maintain strict temperature control throughout the duration of the delivery.
A company has to be specially certified in order to move medical material in addition to having the proper types of vehicles with refrigeration units. That is because most medical material and pharmaceuticals are considered hazardous, which requires certain training to both handle and transport.
Having a well working industry of couriers with the proper equipment to transport drugs and medical material is an incredibly important part of the medical industry. It is physically impossible for all facilities to keep everything on hand at all time that they could require in a medical emergency, and it is not exaggerating in the slightest to say that lives can hang in the balance when these couriers make their deliveries at times. For some couriers who participate in emergency medical shipping, they also have portable refrigeration units which can be loaded into helicopters for emergency transport to hospitals or emergency sites, the fastest way typically to make a temperature controlled delivery.
