Saudia Airlines Cargo has introduced a new product for the movement of temperature-controlled pharmaceuticals.

UPS has acquired Polar Speed, a provider of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical supply-chain services in the United Kingdom.

Yusen Logistics has joined with Imperial Health Sciences (HIS) to provide a temperature-controlled sea-freight consolidation service to Southern Africa for the pharmaceutical industry.

Eight p.m. in the "war room" of Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems: 150 people from all over the world are on a conference call. The topic is a supply outage of trocars, a medical device used in microscopic surgery. Someone on the line, clearly untroubled by the crisis, speaks up. "It's just a trocar," he says.

How France's Sofrigam SA came to trust an outside logistics provider, ModusLink, to provide fulfillment and warehousing duties for its highly sensitive line of products for protecting temperature-controlled bio-pharmaceutical shipments.