BIOPORT is a nonprofit organisation founded in 1994 by Benoit MIRIBEL with the support of Dr Charles MERIEUX to bring together the logistics of those involved in solidarity and public health. Based in the dynamic Lyon area, the organisation provides practical support to its partners around the world for recurring programmes and crisis response.
We have extensive operational and consultancy expertise in the storage and transport of healthcare products on a national and international scale, including vaccines, infectious materials and biological substances.
To guarantee the success of our partners' projects, our organisation has privileged relationships with the transport industry, freight forwarders, commission agents, airlines, shipping lines, packaging companies, warehousing companies, as well as with airport, customs and regulatory authorities.
BIOPORT's operational excellence results from our high standards and the complexity of our operations, translates into a mature analysis of international transport, optimizing costs and constantly seeking efficiency in the service of the general interest. BIOPORT cultivates operational excellence through the demanding nature and complexity of its operations.
These qualities have enabled us to provide support to a wide range of players in the public health sector.
BIOPORT also promotes a socially responsible approach by working with people on social integration schemes in its own warehouses.
BIOPORT has been involved in responses to major crisis :
- 2014-2015 : EBOLA CRISIS BIOPORT acted as a logistics facilitator for Fondation Mérieux's RESAOLAB, enabling the return of Ebola virus category A blood samples to INSERM's P4 Jean Mérieux laboratory under dry ice. This operation followed the first cases of haemorrhagic fever in Guinea in April 2014, in partnership with Air France, the Rhône Prefecture and ANSM.
- 2020-2022 : During the Covid crisis, BIOPORT worked as an operator seeking shipping and supply solutions for a wide range of partners for a total of 80 logistic operations in 27 countries.
- SINCE2020 : BIOPORT has been working with the Institut Pasteur since 2020, and also with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), as part of the AFROSCREEN programme, to ship laboratory reagents to research organisations. Shipments continue to be made within the Pasteur Network in 7 countries: Madagascar, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Niger, Central African Republic and Senegal.
- AND TOMORROW ? As part of its strategy, BIOPORT intends to expand its partnerships in the healthcaresector, in various activities: from strategic storage to international shipping of biological samples or management of spontaneous donations. In 2023, BIOPORT also joined the One Sustainable Health Forum (OSH) to bring its logistics and supply chain expertise to cope with current and future health challenges with partners committed to human, animal and ecosystem health.