Cargo Business Newswire

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Kuehne + Nagel partners with Glaxo SmithKline

Kuehne + Nagel and Glaxo SmithKline signed an end-to-end global logistics partnership through 2020 that will see Kuehne + Nagel run the core business of transporting products from the raw materials supplier to trade customers for the leading global healthcare company.

Kuehne + Nagel said it would provide skills and strategic capability to improve GSK’s global supply chain operations.

GSK’s supply chain features numerous suppliers, a large number of manufacturing units and a variety of specific routes to patients and consumers in over

one hundred countries. Kuehne + Nagel was selected in part due to their existing relationship with GSK, and their expertise in pharmaceuticals and consumer product logistics.

"Our focus is to leverage existing experience and industry-specific solutions serving the pharmaceutical and consumer sector which will deliver incremental benefits to GSK," said Detlef Trefzger, CEO of Kuehne + Nagel International. "Our integrated logistics approach, comprising air, sea, overland services and logistics control centers in four regional hubs will enable GSK’s global supply chains to move to the next level of performance."