Maersk has expanded its pharma distribution centre in Poland with the launch of a new warehouse in Mszczonow, near the country’s capital city of Warsaw.
The Danish company, which provides pharmaceutical warehousing and distribution services in Central Europe since 2001, started a project in late 2020 to create a second pharmaceutical warehouse as part of its existing warehousing and distribution centre in Mszczonów, Poland.
The new facility has now been officially inaugurated and is available to customers.
The warehouse is carbon-neutral while the building has photovoltaic panels installed on the roof, as well as a chilled water system used to supply power to the coolers of all air handling units and fan coils. In addition, the heat recovery installation will supply the buffer tank located in the gas boiler room and recycled heat collected in that way will be used to supply heaters in air handling units during the summer.
Grażyna Sass, Head of Supply Chain at Boehringer Ingelheim Poland, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies that is currently using Maersk’s existing warehouse in Poland, said, “Maersk’s new dedicated pharmaceutical warehouse is constructed according to the latest technological trends and is one of the few to have photovoltaic panels.”
The cold storage of 15,000m², has an operational height of 11,5 meters and a capacity of approximately 24,000 pallet places. It is also located next to the S7 motorway, connecting the two most populous Polish metropolitan areas, Silesia and Mazovia with Warsaw.
The German multinational pharmaceutical firm, Bayer will be the first tenant of the new warehouse, having already agreed with Maersk for their collaboration extension and for the transfer of Bayer’s business to the new facility.
“Our plan is to transfer from Maersk’s current pharmaceutical warehouse to their newly opened facility offering sustainable and scalable solutions,” confirmed Maria Agata Struzik, Supply Chain Head at Bayer in Poland who went on to add, “We were particularly drawn by carbon neutrality, green logistics and environmentally friendly solutions it offers, which is of great importance for Bayer and Maersk in order to ensure sustainable growth”.
The new pharma warehouse is the first one in Poland with Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) Excellent certificate.
Furthermore, the building which is located on a plot fully owned by Maersk will have an integrated Quality Management System implemented, based on Good Distribution and Manufacturing Practice (GDP) and International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) certificates.
