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Airlines, logistics companies ramp up global vaccine deliveries

A ground crew pulls out a pallets from a big air shipping container.

The race to distribute the first COVID-19 vaccines is picking up pace around the world as the massive shipping campaign continues for a third day in the U.S.

Express carriers FedEx (NYSE: FDX) and UPS (NYSE: UPS) are making deliveries of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine to 425 medical centers and other drop locations Tuesday following Friday’s emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. 

On Tuesday, United Airlines officially confirmed widespread reports that it was the first commercial...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/airlines-logistics-companies-ramp-up-global-vaccine-deliveries

Carriers using digitalisation to marginalise forwarders

Container shipping lines are using their online platforms to shift shippers away from freight forwarders and move them into a direct relationship with the carrier, according to freight forwarding sources in Europe and India.

The reports from freight forwarders claim that COSCO, CMA CGM, Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are all looking to gain direct access to shippers either directly through digital platforms or through the issuance of house bills of lading.

One forwarder complained that carriers were...

https://container-news.com/carriers-using-digitalisation-to-marginalise-forwarders/

More airfreight providers put premium on pharma service

Temperature markings on a biopharma cold pack in warehouse operated by Kuehne+Nagel.

Several airlines, logistics companies and airports say they are ready to handle a COVID-19 vaccine once one is approved and shipped from factories. The pharmaceutical and life sciences business is more lucrative than general cargo because of its high value and security requirements, but it also requires specialized investments.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says many of its members have sophisticated facilities and the specialized knowledge to process sensitive shipments. The...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/more-airfreight-providers-put-premium-on-pharma-service

Global Logistics Firm Predicts Massive Job Cuts Amid COVID-19 Pandemic!

  • Freight-forwarder Kuehne+Nagel may cut more than 20,000 jobs, as the coronavirus-caused economic crisis hits shipping.
  • Job cuts may be in locations such as the United States.
  • US unlike some European countries does not have a system of short-time working to fall back on to prevent massive layoffs.

Freight-forwarder Kuehne+Nagel (KNIN.S) may cut more than 20,000 jobs, with warehouse workers most affected, as the coronavirus-caused economic crisis hits shipping, controlling shareholder...

https://mfame.guru/global-logistics-firm-predicts-massive-job-cuts-amid-covid-19-pandemic/

Opinion: Old feeders key to the new normal

As an industry, the maritime sector, has become used to the litany of data revealing the extent of the damage the Coronavirus is wreaking on globalised economies, in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa at different intensities and in sequence as the viral tide sweeps out from its Asian epicentre.

It’s taken just four months of this year for us to get used to this latest standard, that will, we are told, change the world. In reading shipbroker Braemar’s quarterly market report what...

https://container-news.com/opinion-old-feeders-key-to-the-new-normal/

Kuehne+Nagel remains on Hamburg network

  • Contract term until 2023
  • Introduction of a traffic management system and an environmental concept
  • New mobile applications and software solutions

Kuehne + Nagel and the Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH put their successful cooperation in the long term. The world’s leading logistics service providers remains to 2023 alone fair site agent. Kuehne + Nagel is on the Hamburg Fair site since 2012 the official logistics service. The newly advertised forwarding contract includes not only the exclusive...

http://container-news.com/kuehne-nagel-hamburg-network/

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