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Belgium The newly merged Port of Antwerp-Bruges is the world’s first GDP-compliant seaport. CCO Tom Hautekiet explains the significant role the Port is playing in global healthcare supply chains – leveraging Belgium’s positioning as Europe’s leading producer of vaccines -, how it is adapting and driving the green transition, and the…

UK A roundup of the latest UK healthcare, pharma and biotech news including AbbVie and Lilly’s departure from the country’s voluntary medicines pricing agreement, Moderna’s expanded footprint, UK biotech’s 2022 funding downturn and Gilead’s Yescarta approval from NICE.   Northern Ireland Medicines supply still ‘problematic and inefficient’ (BBC News) According to…

USA Global e-commerce giant and the world’s fifth largest company by market capitalisation, Amazon is continuing its expansion into the healthcare space with the launch of a five dollar monthly medicine subscription plan for Amazon Prime members in the US.   The plan, named ‘RxPass’ covers 60 generic medications used to…

Italy Pierluigi Petrone outlines family-owned Petrone Group’s wide-range of outsourcing services to the pharmaceutical industry, how its international footprint has evolved over time, and his key priorities as president of Italy’s main primary pharma distribution association, ASSORAM.   My dream is that Italy, thanks to its infrastructure and location, can become…

Saudi Arabia Saudi Chemical Company Holding (SCCH), Saudi Arabia’s leading manufacturer of civil and military explosives, has been expanding its pharma sector footprint in recent years. Today, the company has capabilities across pharma distribution through SITCO Pharma, manufacturing (both for its own products and as a contract manufacturing organisation (CMO)) via AJA…

Saudi Arabia Historic Saudi healthcare firm Tamer Group has transitioned from a distributor into one of the country’s leading fully-fledged pharmaceutical companies since the 1990s, aided in large part by strategic partnerships with leading Japanese firms. With the family-owned firm seeking further progression, Chairman and Managing Partner Aymen Tamer highlights his vision…

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia’s response to COVID-19 stands up well to international comparisons in both the MENA region and globally. In recent conversation with PharmaBoardroom, Fahad Al Shebel, CEO of national medicine procurement body NUPCO, outlines some of the fundamentals behind this success story.   Extreme, But Effective, Measures Saudi Arabia took…

Saudi Arabia AbdulGhani El-Ajou, is general manager of Aljeel Medical, one of Saudi Arabia’s most well-established healthcare solutions providers, with a focus on medical device distribution, consulting, and maintenance. El-Ajou outlines the company’s evolution over the past 50 years, the importance of digitalisation, and gives his take on the impact of Vision…

Saudi Arabia As the Saudi pharma market – worth approximately USD 8.2 billion – continues to grow, so does the need for pharma companies to efficiently distribute their medicines inside the Kingdom. Here, we present four of the main trends at play in the Saudi distribution landscape, from market consolidation to centralised…

Saudi Arabia Khaled Harb, general manager of Saudi distributor Abdulrehman Algosaibi, highlights the changing distribution landscape in Saudi Arabia, the importance of offering comprehensive solutions that go beyond traditional services, what the updated role of procurement body NUPCO means for the industry, and shares his perspective on the Vision 2030 transformation.  …

Turkey Turkish Cargo, the global air cargo arm of Turkish Airlines, has the world’s largest direct cargo flight network excluding express carriers which has enabled them to deliver 320 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to more than 55 countries around the world. Turhan Özen, its chief cargo officer, explains their services for…

Saudi Arabia Recently appointed CEO of Saudi Chemical Company Holding’s Pharma Sector, Ismail Shehada is today drawing on 20+ years of Big Pharma experience to drive SCCH’s growing life sciences footprint in alignment with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 healthcare transformation. Shehada explains how SCCH is moving into third-party logistics…