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Packaging is Crucial for Pharmaceuticals

Picking up medicine and vitamins from your local store or pharmacy may be a simple task for you.

Shipping prescription drugs and vaccines to pharmacies, medical companies, clinics, or hospitals locally and abroad is however an exacting task. The smallest temperature or humidity variation can put people’s health at risk and cost the pharmaceutical company a significant amount of money.

To maintain the pharmaceutical products’ integrity and safety, they need to stay within specific temperature and humidity ranges.

Transporting pharmaceutical products can be a challenge for many shippers, but not for FAMS.

At FAMS we know pharmaceutical logistics is a delicate process that requires pinpoint accuracy and extreme attention to detail in order to avoid costly mistakes.

Why You Should Only Trust Professionals to Transport Pharmaceuticals

Instead of facing the intimidating task of maintaining temperature control, security, shipping regulations, and logistics management, let FAMS a qualified pharmaceutical transport company handle the details. With a team of experts transporting drugs and vaccines, you’ll enjoy the following benefits:

  • Certified and Approved: Our specialist staff have received specialised training and are accredited in the transport and storage of pharmaceutical & healthcare product.
  • Temperature control: Not only does FAMS have extensive experience in temperature-controlled movement of pharmaceutical goods, but we provide thermal containers for international transportation these goods. Using data loggers placed inside the thermal containers, advanced software prevents the internal temperature from rising above a certain point and allows us to monitor anything that happens to the container.
  • Enjoy flexible delivery options: Because of the individualized nature of pharmaceuticals, we cater for you needs to be able to easily adapt depending on what you are shipping and delivering.
  • Keep goods safe: Pharmaceutical products are both sensitive and expensive. We are experienced in handling sensitive and valuable items such as Glass tubes, for example. As these goods are carefully loaded, transported and unloaded from, FAMS will ensure these goods stay safe.
  • Maintain regulatory compliance: We are professionals with expertise in pharma transport with a good understanding of the regulations that must be followed when loading, storing, and delivering these kinds of products.
  • Get complete visibility: When your pharmaceutical products are handled by experts, you will be able to track the shipment and receive a notification when they have been delivered. These records are important for your business as well as for record-keeping to meet local or federal requirements.

We have a long history of experience with pharma distributors in Zimbabwe . This has allowed FAMS to continually improve processes and facilities that meet customer expectations and safety standards .

When you’re ready to transport your pharmaceutical products, contact us for a comprehensive and transparent freight shipping quote. You can call us at or click Get a Quote below. Our shipping and logistics experts are ready to help you.