Canada now has two COVID-19 vaccines in circulation. FedEx Express flew in the first shipment from Europe on Thursday.
Drugs valued at more than $411 million are offloaded at Port Everglades, and the new Long Beach bridge shines bright.
Now-pardoned California Republican Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty to misusing campaign funds.
Many transport providers besides FedEx and UPS are performing roles in the COVID vaccine distribution. Not everyone is moving vaccines. Find out what Air Transport International is doing.
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More than $32 million worth of fake Viagra pills, knockoff Air Jordans and other counterfeit products were found in shipments arriving from China, authorities said.
Coronavirus vaccines require extreme levels of protection from organized crime organizations, nation states and others looking to steal shipments or valuable data. The U.S. government is stepping in with extra help for industry, including escorts by U.S. marshals.
With vaccines in tow, the transportation industry will deliver a lot of much-needed holiday cheer over the next few weeks.
Chances slim for 2021 shipping equity offerings, but a container-liner IPO prospect remains on the table.
Xwing, not X-Men. When you need to pay the bills, you do what Xwing did: Skip the fancy technology and put a pilot in the plane to ferry COVID vaccines to needy areas.
A Water Resources Development Act bill passed by Congress allows millions to be spent on harbor maintenance.
Container imports far exceed sales, raising concerns that 2020’s transport binge could lead to a big headache in 2021.
“Sharing this information is highly beneficial for the supply chain, especially as we cope with both seasonal and unanticipated peaks and valleys in cargo volume,” says Executive Director Mario Cordero.
The Agriculture Transportation Coalition is grateful to the Federal Maritime Commission for its support of American shippers.
AIT Worldwide Logistics is expanding its international footprint with the purchase of a German freight forwarder.
Paul Brady succeeds company founder Mitch Weseley.
The Defense Logistics Agency is the military’s in-house logistics management provider. It has its ducks in a row to receive new coronavirus vaccines.
Pilots and air traffic controllers can take both new coronavirus vaccines under new guidance from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The airfreight division of Swiss International Air Lines moved a big load of Chinese-made vaccine to Brazil on a passenger flight.
Digital marketplaces are becoming more popular in the air cargo world. Investors like what they see at cargo.one and poured $42 million into the company.
Will your cargo ship arrive on time? Globally, the chances are now 50-50. In the Asia-U.S. container trade, it’s less than one in three.
Operation Warp Speed and the delivery of the Pfizer COVID vaccine are clicking on all cylinders, but that doesn’t mean production and distribution are going perfectly.
FedEx Express and TNT Express are integrating. They will continue to outsource airfreight to Qantas under a new deal.
Allegations of service and rate violations ocean carriers against U.S. exporters are increasing, according to FMC commissioners.
Container flows into U.S. ports have grown faster over the past three months than they have at any other time in the past decade.
Delta joins the caravan of airlines moving COVID vaccines. Air Canada gets ready.
Removal of dislodged containers is expected to take more than a month, and none of the 1,816 units that fell into the Pacific have been recovered.
The dry ice shortage that many feared would crimp the ability to ship COVID-19 vaccines turned out to be a Y2K event.
FedEx is renewing its regional fleet with a cargo-friendly turboprop from ATR.
“In November, 50 of the 88 vessels coming to Los Angeles first went to anchor and averaged two and a half days there.”
Distribution of coronavirus vaccines isn’t limited to FedEx and UPS. Many freight transportation and logistics companies are already playing a large role in the global immunization campaign.
Vaccine distribution won’t delay deliveries of your Honey Baked Ham and toilet paper, says CNBC’s Lori Ann LaRocco.
The Port of Los Angeles is still working to get toys to retailers’ shelves in time for Christmas.
Ocean carriers toed the line on capacity control in 2020. What does this new normal mean to shippers, yards and leasing companies?
American Airlines is moving a Pfizer vaccine shipment from Chicago to a Caribbean island via Miami.
The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines is finally a reality, but it’s a carefully orchestrated process among the federal government, the manufacturer, a major health care distributor and FedEx and UPS.
A UPS plane delivers Canada’s first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines as national rollout begins.
Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan, could play an active role in the U.S. and worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccine because it is the closest commercial airport […]
FedEx Express (NYSE: FDX) and UPS (NYSE: UPS) trucks departed Pfizer Inc.’s (NYSE: PFE) sprawling manufacturing facility in Portage, Michigan, on Sunday morning loaded with COVID-19 vaccines packed in dry […]
Airlines shed nearly 10% of their workforce in October.
Pilots could have violated their medical authorizations to fly if they took the COVID-19 vaccine on their own without permission. The FAA removed that issue and gave them permission Saturday.
Domestic express carriers spring into action, moving the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare facilities.
Anticipation for the first COVID vaccine is about to be realized and with it a huge ground and air operation to immunize the world. ABI Research quantifies some of the transportation requirements.
The closure of the U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico for nonessential travel will extend through Jan. 21, though commercial trucks remain exempt.
LATAM Airlines is offering to move domestic shipments of vaccines for free.
Nobody likes a line cutter, but when it comes to the rush delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, the Federal Aviation Administration is making an exception.
The more dry ice used to cool a pharmaceutical shipment, the less product that can be carried on a plane. That’s because dry ice is poisonous when it turns to gas. The FAA issued guidelines to help airlines manage the dry ice risk.
It’s not just container shipping that’s rolling in profits. LPG tanker rates are hitting new highs on Asian demand for U.S. propane.
Who will get to the front of the COVID vaccination line? Virtually everyone agrees front-line doctors and nurses, and people in nursing homes, should be first, but after that industry sectors are fighting over who is more important. Freight transportation groups say they should be in the top tier.
Empty containers returning to Asia jumped 55% to 283,563 units.
Operation COVID Logistics is underway, with the auxiliary materials to administer vaccines moving out to local distribution sites.
“Additional stress on an already-overloaded system tends to further destabilize the system.”
U.S. officials at Operation Warp Speed say they are ready to go with the COVID-19 vaccine distribution, but a high-ranking state health official says people should be prepared for hiccups based on recent trials
FedEx Canada and Innomar Strategies secure a Canadian government contract to distribute millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses.
The all-time best month tops the mark set in just October.
The trans-Pacific surge will persist through Q1 and January could see all-time-high container volumes, predicts Flexport’s Nerijus Poskus.
The heavy-lift cargo plane is not the first aircraft that comes to mind for coronavirus vaccine delivery, but with the right planning, Volga-Dnepr says it can move many huge amounts of doses at once.
“This is one of the most difficult seasons we’ve been facing trying to move our cargo out of the United States,” says a California almond producer.
Beyond the EU, the U.K. will have to busy itself establishing bilateral air service agreements with other countries as well.
“We’re able to reach virtually 100% of our customers in Florida overnight from Jacksonville, which was a real selling point for us,” says aftermarket auto parts retailer.
Antonov Airlines is bringing back its mammoth An-225 freighter, the only one of its kind in the world, to help alleviate a shortage of aircraft following the grounding of eight An-124 jumbo jets for safety reasons.
Trans-Pacific spot index rates haven’t budged from the same peak band for the past 10 weeks. How is this possible in a competitive free market?
Express carriers like DHL are getting slammed with e-commerce shipments as the holidays approach, and transportation contractors like Cargojet are throwing resources into the response.
The state of customers’ freight remains unknown as inspection of the 14,052-TEU vessel begins.
CEO Jim Newsome calls Walmart’s $220 million investment a signal that SCPA is “prepared to be a force in retail distribution.”
DHL will be the first to deliver COVID-19 vaccines in Germany. Integrated logistics companies like DHL, FedEx and UPS have an advantage with their closed networks and sophisticated delivery methods for keeping vaccines at the correct temperature.
E-documentation initiative establishes data and process standards for bill of lading preparation and issuance.
If there were a virus bloom in a given area, states could quickly decide to move vaccine from one ZIP code to another.
New data shows cargo continued to rebound in October thanks to strong North American market and economic fundamentals. By next year, the air cargo market will be back to 2019 levels, while the passenger sector struggles to survive.
China is again the top trading partner of the United States, with trade totaling $59.6 billion for October.
Sixty-four missing containers carried liquid ethanol, batteries and fireworks.
The GEODIS Women’s Network “is also intended to improve the reputation of the logistics and transport industry, a field traditionally dominated by men.”
Container shipping stocks are back to pre-COVID levels whereas many tanker and bulker stocks are down by double-digits year-to-date.
UNICEF is helping less developed countries with supply chain needs associated with distributing coronavirus vaccines.
Real Estate Roundup is a regular rundown of developments in the world of industrial real estate used for logistics and transportation. This week: Black Creek Group, Dream Industrial and Plymouth […]
The freight-forwarding arm of Canada’s Manitoulin Group has bought Chicago-based World Wide International Logistics, its third acquisition in the United States.
There will be no letup in booming container imports in 2020. The only question now is how long it lasts into 2021.
Retrofitting a passenger plane to operate as a heavy cargo plane is a big engineering job that requires many new parts and disposal of old ones. Logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel says it can reduce inventory and transportation costs to make conversions more economical.
Port communities in LA, Charleston and Philadelphia already at risk, officials assert.
The pandemic is driving people to drink more. Bulk ocean shipments of wine in flexitanks are up 30% this year.
The public-private partnership distributing the COVID vaccines is in the starting blocks. Planning is almost done. Now it’s time to execute the race once the FDA says the drugs are safe for public use.
First, Spire collects the ship-movement data from orbit. Then algorithms use that data to reveal the patterns of global shipping.
Real Estate Roundup is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of industrial real estate used for logistics and transportation. This week: Publix, Amazon and Starbucks are among the […]
Surviving cargo that was bound for the U.S. now is headed back to Asia.
A rail blockade in west-central Mexico has ended, freeing key rail lines connecting to the Mexican seaport of Lázaro Cárdenas on the Pacific coast.
Pfizer and BioNTech might be on their way to a logistical breakthrough if they determine their promising COVID-19 vaccine can be shipped at warmer temperatures.
CP will serve Hapag-Lloyd at the New Brunswick port through 2025.
Regardless of a transport or logistics manager’s objectives, the digital age name of the game is to estimate the dollar savings provided by an application like this.
Panama Canal congestion is not impeding transits of container ships but it is pumping up spot rates for LNG and LPG carriers.
Lufthansa and DB Schenker are working together to increase the market for alternative aviation fuels.
Pilots at UPS and company officials disagree about the level of precautions being taken to keep them safe while providing essential cargo service around the world. The pilots’ union says infections are on the rise and more testing is needed.
Italian firm Fincantieri is building a $150M shipyard in Mexico’s Yucatán state to take advantage of cruise line operations and oil & gas exploration.
Preparing for the massive global distribution of COVID vaccines for airlines is the equivalent of the military massing for an invasion. Here’s how United, American and Delta airlines are getting ready.
The total market capitalization of U.S.-listed ocean shipping stocks has plunged 34% in 2020, but there are reasons for hope in 2021.
Delta Airlines named a new cargo boss on Monday, moving Shawn Cole to an upper management position in sales.
The feel-good story appears above Cardi B’s party apology.
UPS and a Russian all-cargo airline collaborated to move the first shipment of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine.
The $229 million deal comes as CAI International seeks to focus on its containing leasing business.
In the airline world, slots doesn’t mean playing the slot machines in Las Vegas. Slots are how big airports divide up available windows for takeoffs and landings among airlines. Airlines want regulators to cut them some slack on meeting their flight quotas during COVID, but competitors say they want an opportunity to fill the void.
Volga-Dnepr said it is taking safety precautions by grounding its fleet of mega-freighters. One of its An-124s was involved in a serious accident earlier this month.
