The largest and smartest network in pharma cold chain logistics

The largest and smartest network in pharma cold chain logistics

The power of global scale

We operate the largest fleet and most extensive service network in the industry, giving us unique ability to optimize container movements worldwide. By re-engineering how our high-performance containers travel, we ensure they’re always in the right place at the right time, while minimizing environmental impact.

By doubling our use on maritime transit for fleet movements, we dramatically lower the "embedded carbon" of our service. These emissions sit within our upstream transport footprint, meaning we take responsibility for lowering the impact before the container even reaches your supply chain.

Our biggest lever: Smarter container moves

By operating the industry’s largest fleet and most connected global network - and offering adjustable temperature solutions, we can position containers closer to demand, reduce empty moves, and increase the use of sea freight where feasible.

Eliminating the empty returns

The most sustainable logistical movement is the one that never has to happen. We have optimized our global flows so that our containers spend more time protecting your products and less time traveling empty.

Approximately 70% of our trips now start as a new active lease directly following a previous shipment, bypassing the need for an empty return. Our containers move directly from one life-saving mission to the next, eliminating thousands of tonnes of CO2 annually by cutting out unnecessary repositioning journeys.

Envirotainer’s active ULDs and reconfigurable ProofTainer containers can be quickly redeployed across different temperature ranges without changing units, increasing utilization and flexibility to meet evolving customer needs. Because our containers are constantly in the flow near major pharma hubs, we offer faster response times, more availability, and greater equipment certainty for your most urgent shipments.

In 2025, we took further action to address our logistics footprint:

Reduced empty container shipments

Goods-in-container repositioning on selected lanes ensures containers move with purpose, not empty

Measure & track what matters

Measure and report CO₂e from container repositioning to gain insights, drive improvements, and ensure progress against targets

A smarter, larger fleet

Adding more new units with temperature-controlled abilities to enable better network planning and reduce reliance on air transport

Efficiency by design

Scaling our most impact-efficient containers supports the gradual phase-out of older, less efficient units

What this means for our customers

Win-win solution: One-way leases

We offer customers the flexibility of one-way leases, allowing containers to be used for a single shipment. This approach lets us seamlessly manage returns through new customer orders, taking ownership of the emissions linked to network balancing. By shouldering this responsibility, we remove the burden from our customers, letting them focus their sustainability efforts on the areas they can directly control.

More predictable container availability and transit times

Lower emissions per shipment across your supply chain

Greater resilience through a globally optimized network

Easily switch temperature settings within the same solution when requirements change

A logistics partner actively reducing the footprint of your cold chain