TNT Express, the world's leading business-to-business express delivery company, announced a strategic partnership with the US Company AirNet Systems. AirNet will act as TNT's exclusive partner for transports of clinical samples to and inside the United States
Having implemented a specific network for companies involved in developing medicines, TNT Express is renowned as the European market leading provider of Clinical Express courier services.
TNT Express has already implemented highly specialized Clinical Express excellence call-centers in Europe, China, India, Russia and South Africa and moves over 700.000 clinical samples per year for the pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare industry. Through its first strategic alliance with an American company, a global coverage has now been achieved.
AirNet Systems, a recognized leader in American Life Science Services, currently operates 128 aircraft located strategically throughout the United States. Its national transportation network provides value-added aviation, Life Science services (transport of radiopharmaceuticals, blood, tissues and organs) and other unique and time-critical segments. "We are delighted about this natural alliance between two companies, both following the same objective to achieve excellence in premium transport", says Onno Boots, Director Global Account Management (GAM), TNT Express. "While TNT Clinical Express is already the leader on the European market, our alliance with AirNet is a major building block in deploying the global GAM strategy and significantly grow our presence in the United States."
AirNet's operating network is capable of serving virtually any community within the United States. "We appreciate being selected as TNT's American partner." Explains Larry Glasscock, Senior Vice President AirNet Express Services. "Our companies are very similar in customer focus and commitment. Furthermore, both companies are recognized as experts in major life science segments and we feel that our unique transportation network and service offerings match up well with the similar services TNT offers throughout the world."
To further strengthen its US-position, TNT Clinical Express has opened a Clinical Express excellence center in Ohio. The team of dedicated specialists working in this center is trained to provide TNT Clinical Express customers with exclusive services, consultancy support, live tracking and innovative packaging solutions for dangerous goods and temperature-sensitive products. "The opening of our latest Center of Excellence in Columbus, Ohio, is the final piece to our clinical trials infrastructure and a great opportunity for a European company like ours to broaden our market share in the United States.", says Onno Boots. "It is another important step to make sure that we are able to offer the most customized solutions to the life science industry, a sector we have been highly involved in since the early 1990's."
In a global market estimated between US$ 300-500 million, growing by 10-15% per year, TNT Clinical Express is the only global provider of a true one-stop shop solution dedicated to clinical research and the pharmaceutical industry. It seamlessly links every necessary part, from lab technicians to dry-ice suppliers, fulfillment companies, doctors and pharmaceutical industries.
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