Pandemic

Commentary: With PPP loans ended, what comes next?

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Motor carriers form the most competitive mode of transportation. 

This is because there are so many independent players, and the mode is relatively easy to enter and exit. A tractor and a commercial driver’s license (CDL) are enough to make someone an owner-operator. 

In this way the owner-operator is a sole proprietor of a small business, either working...

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A To Z of Methanol Poisoning and How Sanitizers Fuel It

As Sanitizers become the norm of the day in this pandemic world, severe cases poisoning and deaths related to sanitizers are surfacing.

Many were comatose, and those who were conscious had bouts of nausea, vomiting, and hyperventilation. Scarier still, some experienced kidney failure and vision problems. According to a National Geographic report, that’s how the severe the problem is

Methanol Poisoning

When these patients began trickling into emergency rooms at hospitals across Iran in late...

https://mfame.guru/a-to-z-of-methanol-poisoning-and-how-sanitizers-fueling-it/

Tracking the Global Spread of COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with more than 23 million confirmed cases in 188 countries. About 800,000 people have lost their lives.
  • Cases of the disease are continuing to surge in many countries, while others which had apparent success in suppressing initial outbreaks are now seeing infections rise again.
  • The pandemic is ebbing in some of the countries that were hit hard early on, but the number of new cases is growing faster, with more than 200,000 reported each day.

https://mfame.guru/tracking-the-global-spread-of-covid-19-pandemic/

WHO Advises ‘National Unity, Global Solidarity’ As COVID19 End Date Moves To 2021

In a major development, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) had said that he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in under two years, reports BBC.

Taking Cue from Past Pandemics

Speaking in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Spanish flu of 1918 had taken two years to overcome.

But he added that current advances in technology could enable the world to halt the virus “in a shorter time”.

“Of course with more connectiveness, the virus has a better chance of spreading,” he...

https://mfame.guru/who-advises-national-unity-global-solidarity-as-covid19-end-date-moves-to-2021/

ZIM Q2 net profit shoots up 394%

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. was modest in its earning statement, calling a second-quarter 394% net profit rocket simply “significant improvement.” 

This week ZIM reported second-quarter net profit of $25.3 million compared to $5.1 million in the same period last year.

ZIM President and CEO Eli Glickman used the same exact words, “significant improvement,” in May, when he reported the Israeli shipping line had whittled its first-quarter net loss year-over-year from $24.3 million to $11.9...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/zim-q2-net-profit-shoots-up-394

How Cities Favour Pandemic Carrying Animal Growth

Farmland, California

According to a BBC News report written by BBC Environment Correspondent, Helen Briggs, Scientists have warned that turning wild spaces into farmland and cities has created more opportunities for animal diseases to cross into humans and it’s likely to make the world more pandemic prone.

Natural World Exploitation Fueling Pandemics
  • The new study, published in Nature journal, shows that animals living in the environments shaped by humans carry more pathogens than those in pristine habitats.
  • And it...

https://mfame.guru/how-cities-favour-pandemic-carrying-animal-growth/

World Food Program says COVID air network could fold soon

White Singapaore Airlines jetliner with blue tail lifts off from runway with airport control tower in background. Singapore Airlines is helping the World Food Program.

The World Food Program (WFP) says its air logistics support for humanitarian groups fighting the COVID-19 pandemic is running out of money.

The United Nations organization has managed more than 800 aid flights to 161 countries since May, when it established eight humanitarian response hubs and air links among them dedicated to pandemic response. Cargo volumes dispatched have been rising each month and total 44,654 cubic meters, according to an Aug. 11 situation report.

Enough cargo to fill 188...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/world-food-program-says-covid-air-network-could-fold-soon

Australian imports: which consumer goods are on the rise?

Article contributed by shipping line ANL, a subsidiary of Shipping Australia full member CMA CGM.

Pictured: water being poured from a bottle. Shipping line ANL reports that imports of bottled water rose by 59% in 2020. Photo: CongerDesign from Pixabay.

With the various natural disasters, health crisis and geopolitical tensions occurring year to date, ANL has taken a deep dive into the Group’s Australian import figures to compare average volumes in the first half of the year. The difference in...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/australian-imports-which-consumer-goods-are-on-the-rise/

Port of LA records 11 straight months of declines

July was good — 24% better than June — at the Port of Los Angeles, but volume was still down 6.11% year-over-year.

The Port of LA moved 856,389 twenty-foot equivalent units in July compared to 912,154 TEUs in the same month in 2019. That brought the port’s seven-month total to 4,618,278 TEUs, down 15.3% from the 5,450,793 TEUs recorded between Jan. 1 and July 31, 2019.

“The July volumes were good — seventh-best month in our 114-year history here at the Port of Los Angeles,” said Executive...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/port-of-la-records-11-straight-months-of-declines

American Airlines doubles down on cargo-only flights

A big silver American Airlines jet takes off with bright blue sky, airport in background. American is flying more cargo-only flights.

American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) in September will offer more than 1,000 cargo-only flights using passenger aircraft, double the number of dedicated cargo flights flown during August, in response to a transport supply shortage as the traditional peak shipping season gets underway.

Cargo-only operations will serve 32 cities and be supplemented by 1,200 passenger flights offering cargo space, the company said Monday. It does not currently plan to open up more floor space for cargo by removing seats.

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/american-airlines-doubles-down-on-cargo-only-flights

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