In this edition: The moon becomes a cold storage warehouse, vaccines transported outside the cold chain and Pig Sooie chicken nuggets hit the freezer.
Unvaccinated Canadian truck drivers contemplate whether to get COVID-19 vaccine ahead of U.S. border mandate amid fears thousands won’t.
Return of millions of US visitors to be ‘boon’ for transportation and logistics
“This is by far the biggest event that we have ever had to deal with,” UPS’ Dan Gagnon said about COVID.
“For companies that went into the COVID-19 year, if they were strong they came out stronger,” said Moore.
Bill Freidel of AIT Worldwide Logistics expects 2021 to be another challenging year for freight as the COVID-19 vaccine is prepped for release. He encourages logistics companies to invest in cold-chain technologies and continue to meet customer expectations.
UPS Healthcare is increasing its capability to provide dry ice for COVID vaccine shipments while Swiss firm SkyCell is going to market with a shipping container it says is more efficient and safer because it uses less dry ice.
Pfizer is laying the logistics groundwork for what is considered the largest-ever vaccine distribution campaign.
Air freight demand for COVID-19 vaccines will be massive, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
The challenges of delivering a coronavirus vaccine to 8 billion people are immense, but over time more logistics companies will be able to participate as shipping tolerances ease.
Airline industry experts are just guesstimating when they say 8,000 big freighter planes will be needed to rush COVID vaccines to the public. Until we know more about the shipping requirements and packaging logistics, folks will still be in the dark.
President Donald Trump is trying to fast-track a COVID-19 vaccine and appears ready to mobilize military assets. A possible scenario involves an airlift with Air Force cargo jets, which offer two advantages: speed and cold storage.
The U.S. government is coordinating with the private sector how to quickly deliver a COVID-19 vaccine, but under one scenario officials are contemplating the military could deploy giant cargo planes to carry refrigerated trucks full of vaccines.
New medicines and life science products are more valuable and temperature-sensitive than before, requiring special storage and transportation conditions. Will there be enough of this infrastructure to handle a COVID vaccine?
Whether or not President Donald Trump’s optimism about an October surprise comes to fruition, there could be an approved coronavirus vaccine next year. A giant flotilla of all-cargo planes will be deployed to deliver the medicine around the world, but airlines are already short of capacity and there isn’t yet enough refrigerated infrastructure to safely store that much vaccine. Airlines are issuing a call to action.
If all goes well, scientists will defy the longest of odds and bring to market a vaccine, or multiple vaccines, to defeat the novel coronavirus by late 2020 or early […]
U.S. export licenses are required for numerous types of highly infectious diseases that are shared in the form of samples for medical research between labs around the world.
