HYDERABAD, India — Reefer Express, a cold storage logistics provider serving India's pharmaceutical supply chain, today announced an expansion of its temperature-controlled logistics capabilities, adding route-specific validation, continuous shipment monitoring, and last-mile handling protocols designed for vaccines, biologics, diagnostics, and other temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products moving across the country.
The expansion addresses a widening gap in India's cold storage capacity. According to the National Centre for Cold-chain Development, the country requires an estimated 35 to 40 million metric tons of cold storage capacity against roughly 32 million metric tons currently available, a shortfall that has left pharmaceutical shippers exposed on high-risk routes during peak summer months, when ambient temperatures regularly exceed 40 degrees Celsius.
“Most cold chain failures in India do not happen in the warehouse. They happen at the handoffs, when a shipment moves from a reefer vehicle to a delivery agent, or sits at a transfer point outside active cooling,” said [Spokesperson Name], [Title] at Reefer Express. “Our focus has been on closing those gaps with documented, monitored protocols at every stage of the journey, not just the legs that are easy to control.”
As part of the expansion, Reefer Express now provides route and product-specific temperature validation rather than generic certification, storage and fleet infrastructure qualified for India's distinct climate zones, and continuous temperature and location tracking throughout transit. Every shipment is supported by documentation, including temperature logs, excursion reports, and chain of custody records, generated as standard practice rather than produced only on request.
The company has also formalized a written excursion protocol covering notification timelines, decision trees, and quarantine procedures in the event a shipment moves outside its required temperature range, along with defined last-mile handling windows to limit product exposure between vehicle and recipient.
“Pharmaceutical companies are not just buying transport. They are buying accountability,” said“When a shipment fails, someone has to be able to say exactly where and why. That is what we have built our systems around.”
Reefer Express serves pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and healthcare providers across India, supporting shipments across standard temperature bands including 2 to 8 degrees Celsius for vaccines and biologics, 15 to 25 degrees for diagnostics, and frozen product categories. The company says the expanded capabilities are now available across its existing service routes, with additional route qualification underway.
For more information or to request a route-specific cold storage logistics assessment, contact Reefer Express at [email protected]

About Reefer Express
Reefer Express is a cold chain logistics company based in Hyderabad, India, providing temperature-controlled transportation and storage solutions for pharmaceutical, healthcare, and other temperature-sensitive shipments. The company operates 12 warehouses with more than 130,000 pallets of storage capacity, a fleet of 50-plus vehicles, and coverage across 100-plus cities in India. Reefer Express supports pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and healthcare providers with validated packaging, monitored transport, and documented cold chain handling across services including cold chain logistics, temperature-controlled logistics, packaging and distribution, healthcare logistics, pharma supply chain solutions, and cell and gene supply chain.

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