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FCS opens Frankfurt Pharma Center

[ May 20, 2026   //   ]

Frankfurt Cargo Services (FCS) officially opened its new CEIV- and GDP-certified Pharma Center on May 12. With it, the largest airline-independent cargo handler at the Germany gateway has quadrupled its space for handling temperature-controlled pharmaceutical cargo. 
It centralizes all of its pharmaceutical handling operations across a space of just under 3,300 square meters, including receiving and dispatching temperature-controlled freight, storage, breaking down and reassembling pallets. This not only reduces travel distances but also completely eliminates transit times in an uncontrolled environment. In addition to accepting loose freight directly into a temperature-controlled storage area, it also enables the temperature-controlled assembly of entire pallets and the storage of containers  for which there are designated storage spaces with the appropriate power supply.

The new Pharma Center covers both the Controlled Room Temperature Storage segment, with a temperature range of 15 to 25°C, and Controlled Cool Storage, with a temperature range of 2 to 8°C.

FCS managing director Thomas Schürmann, said: “Pharmaceutical handling is one of the fastest-growing sectors in our industry. With our new Pharma Center, we now not only provide the optimal conditions to ensure a fully controlled environment at every stage of handling, but are also ideally equipped for further growth thanks to a significantly expanded facility.”

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