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New World Courier Office in Istanbul Serves Turkey’s Flourishing Biopharm Sector

With the implementation of new clinical trial regulations in 2008 and an increasing Ministry of Health focus on GxP, World Courier delivers much-needed expertise to Turkey’s pharmaceutical community.

DÜSSELDORF (Germany), January 6, 2011—With its first office in Istanbul (Turkey) officially opening in January 2011, World Courier will provide the pharmaceutical industry with the high quality GxP-compliant logistical services and temperature-controlled expertise needed to conduct successful clinical trials in that country.

“Turkey offers great potential for pharmaceutical companies, providing they are able to navigate the Ministry of Health’s rigorous compliancy regulations,” says Klaus Hachmann, Regional Director for World Courier’s Nordic, Central and Eastern Europe group.“World Courier has the knowledge, the network and the expertise to offer consistently reliable, high-quality temperature-controlled transport to the rapidly growing number of in-country investigator sites.”

According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than 250 trials are currently under way in Turkey, with another 200 studies in the patient recruitment phase. With a strong pool of skilled labour, lower operating costs than those found in Western Europe and a concentrated governmental effort to increase R&D investment by 2013, Turkey offers great opportunity for the future.

World Courier offers temperature-controlled transport and logistics to all major cities in Turkey.

About World Courier

Incorporated in 1969 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut (USA), World Courier is the largest and most experienced specialty courier service with a network of over 140 wholly-owned ISO 9001-certified offices in more than 50 countries. It also operates the world’s largest integrated company-owned network of GMP-compliant investigational drug storage facilities in 11 developing and strategic locations, with two more locations soon to open. With a fully GxP-compliant transport and supply chain system in place network-wide, World Courier meets the most demanding industry and regulatory requirements for managing the time- and temperature-sensitive consignments of regulated and other industries.

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Contacts

Klaus Hachmann

Managing Director

World Courier (Deutschland) GmbH

Telephone: 49 211 942 27 27

Email: khachmann@worldcourier.de