The Indian arm of the German major Rhenus Logistics, is now gearing up to transport the medical diagnostic machines such as the CT scans, MRI scanners, X-ray machines, etc. The company through its Hi-Tech Logistics services will now manage transportation of sensitive medical devices and equipment.

It will use modern fleet of vehicles which will be specially designed to transport the high value medical equipments. The company has been training technicians past two years help them become certified engineers, especially for their medical customers. It will offer the entire supply chain solutions, including custom clearance, warehousing and transportation besides last-mile support and after sales service which covers installation and training at the healthcare providers premises.

Since most of such products are imported, the Hi-Tech Logistics is addressing a huge gap in the specialised transportation and delivery. This level of integration is being offered for the first time in India. The launch comes immediately after the teaming up of India and Germany during the Hannover Fair and the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Germany.

Currently Rhenus is giving prominence to healthcare sector and plans to extend its services for banking, retail, fitness & wellness, IT and data storage industry, immediately.

“India is one of the rapidly growing market for high-tech and sophisticated technologies in the world. We see a great potential in handling logistics of high value products,” said Michael Boos, managing director of Rhenus Midi Data (Hi-Tech Logistics division in Europe).

The market in India is growing rapidly and the customer is demanding better handling of such equipment. With the government’s vision expressed through National Health Assurance Mission, we expect the demand to increase exponentially, said Vivek Arya, managing director, Rhenus Logistics India.

Sharing a lot of cases where the Hi-Tech arm of Rhenus Logistics has played an important role, Andreas Pistner, regional director, Hi-Tech Logistics, Rhenus Logistics added, “India runs a huge investment programme to modernize existing infrastructure. Personally I am very impressed by the way India is trying to address her logistics challenges such as building roads, ports, etc. For a logistics player to succeed here, you need a perfect blend of global expertise and local knowledge’

Rhenus Logistics, with annual turnover of Euro 4 billion globally offers contract logistics, freight logistics, port logistics and public transport over 24,000 people at more than 390 locations worldwide.

Its India operations is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company employing over 1000 personnel across 50 locations a large variety of shipments for pharmaceuticals among others.