DHL Global Forwarding has opened a temperature-controlled bonded warehouse in Jakarta to help the Indonesian life sciences industry optimize its supply chains ahead of projected growth.

According to DHL, the new bonded warehouse will provide life sciences and healthcare customers a range of services designed to speed up and streamline movements of sensitive cargo. This includes in-house customs clearance after the standard 4pm cut-off time and automatic SMS notifications designed to speed up onsite teams’ response to critical shipment events.

“Indonesia’s pharmaceutical market is projected to grow by 10% per annum to be worth more than US$12 billion by 2022, driven largely by growth in the domestic market for generic drugs and increasingly accessible healthcare country-wide,” said Vincent Yong, president director of DHL Global Forwarding Indonesia. “This creates significant opportunities for both multinational and domestic life sciences operators to scale up their operations. This new bonded warehouse is our latest investment in the logistics infrastructure needed to fully capitalize on those opportunities while boosting the quality of medicines, devices and other medical goods that Indonesia’s people have access to.”

The facility is built with materials from PT.NS BlueScope Indonesia, a subsidiary of steelmaker BlueScope Steel. Additionally, cooling technology certified by the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics will give manufacturers and distributors a storage environment of 2-8°C.

The roll-out of additional value-added services including final-mile delivery, packaging and end-to-end supply chain solutions is already being planned, according to DHL.