Specialised transport for sensitive products

To ensure safe and reliable transport of its products, NTP has invested in its own highly specialised logistics service

Unlike regular pharmaceutical products, radiopharmaceutical products are extremely time-sensitive.

This naturally affects logistics, which is handled by NTP Logistics, a 51% controlled entity. Operating both locally and internationally, NTP Logistics provides an end-toend logistics chain that ensures NTP is able to deliver its products timeously.

“We specialise in high-value, time-sensitive and hazardous packages,” says NTP Logistics MD Ntokozo Mogorosi.

There is specific legislation and regulation around how radiation products are transported locally and internationally.

“The International Atomic Energy Association oversees all players in the nuclear space, regulating their activities as well as the transportation of radiation technology products such as those produced by NTP,” she says.

“This includes specific packaging to ensure that nobody is exposed to hazardous radiation as well as limiting how much radiation can be transported in a shipment at any one time.”

Prior to the establishment of NTP Logistics, NTP struggled to appoint a logistics company capable of adhering to these specific regulations and that was mindful of the time-sensitive nature of the products they were transporting, says Mogorosi. Without timely delivery, doctors would also not be able to perform scheduled imaging or treatment sessions.

NTP Logistics delivers NTP products to 50 countries each day. “We have a global network of over 6,000 partners in 789 cities throughout the world, making time-sensitive deliveries,” she says.