Vaccine Distribution

Cold Chain Summit: Challenges in pharmaceutical logistics

Pharmaceutical logistics had to adapt quickly to distribute vaccines at cold temperatures.

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ Cold Chain Summit Wednesday.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Cold chain challenges in the pharmaceutical industry.

DETAILS: The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the cold chain’s role in the pharmaceutical industry. Alex Guite, with the drug distributor World Courier, explains how the cold chain took on that challenge and what drug distributors have learned about the cold chain from the pandemic.

SPEAKER: Guite is the vice president of services and alliances...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/cold-chain-summit-challenges-in-pharmaceutical-logistics

Air cargo capacity recovers slowly at 50% below pre-pandemic levels

Zach Strickland and Ray Wood in conversation about air cargo

Between the pressures of capacity demand, global vaccine distribution and plummeting passenger travel, the air cargo industry has been through the wringer ⁠— and it’s not quite over. FreightWaves’ Director of Market Intelligence Zach Strickland sat down with Ray Wood, head of global carrier management at World Courier, an AmerisourceBergen Company, to discuss how the air cargo market has adjusted and maintained strong relationships with customers. 

“Air cargo capacity and passenger services...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/air-cargo-capacity-recovers-slowly-at-50-below-pre-pandemic-levels

Companies in desperate hunt for aircraft to move cargo

A forklift driver with a pallet, airfreight containers in a row and an aircraft in the background.

The airfreight market is so saturated that companies without precommitments, or the stomach to pay premiums, are having difficulty finding aircraft to move their goods. And import cargo keeps coming, on top of record volumes for air and ocean shipping, further straining an air logistics system stretched by a shortage of equipment and airport labor.

Logistics professionals and analysts say capacity is rapidly tightening as more shippers turn to air for cross-border transport, sending air cargo...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/companies-in-desperate-hunt-for-aircraft-to-move-cargo

Pandemic exposed pharmaceutical cold chain waste: What’s the solution?

Over the past year, the supply chain ⁠— and more recently the pharma supply chain ⁠— has been thrust into the limelight. While that spotlight spurred celebration of the supply chain’s resilience and significance to daily living, harsher realities about waste and poor planning also became apparent.

“The supply chain is often an afterthought,” said Lloyd Henly, regional produce manager of commercial supply chain for Western Europe, the Middle East and Africa for World Courier, an AmerisourceBergen...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/pandemic-exposed-pharmaceutical-cold-chain-waste-whats-the-solution

Positive publicity from COVID can lift air cargo, trade group says

The air cargo industry rallied around the common mission of delivering vital medical supplies to defeat the COVID-19 virus. A multi-sector trade association wants to capitalize on that unity of purpose to drive collaboration on issues important to the sector’s long-term growth and society, such as digitization and sustainability.

“Prior to COVID, we were mostly focused on moving the boxes, but we often overlooked the value to society. COVID changed that. It was the best public relations campaign...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/positive-publicity-from-covid-can-lift-air-cargo-trade-group-says

Mass production of COVID vaccines — Medically Necessary

Medically Necessary is a FreightWaves podcast about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to medical providers and patients.

FreightWaves’ Matt Blois talks to executives steering their companies through the pandemic and researchers with ideas to make health care supply chains more efficient.

In this first episode, Blois explores the rapid changes medical supply chains underwent to keep up with the COVID-19 vaccine production demand. Blois speaks with Robert...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/mass-production-of-covid-vaccines-medically-necessary

Biden picks Maffei to chair Federal Maritime Commission

President Joe Biden has named Daniel Maffei, a commissioner on the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), to lead the agency as chairman.

Maffei replaces Michael Khouri, who had been designated chairman by former President Donald Trump.

Maffei acknowledged he is taking the agency’s helm amid significant container supply chain disruptions and related concerns over container ship rates and service.

“I am grateful and humbled by the confidence President Biden has placed in me by appointing me Chairman at...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/biden-picks-maffei-to-chair-federal-maritime-commission

New head of CVTA focusing on entry-level driver training rule

Helping prepare truck driver training schools for a major new federal regulation is at the top of A. Bailey Wood’s priority list.

Wood is taking over as president and CEO of the Commercial Vehicle Training Association (CVTA) from Don Lefeve.

“Obviously the first issue in terms of the association’s priorities is implementation of the entry-level driver training [ELDT] rule, and making sure the states are ready for it as well as the industry,” Wood told FreightWaves. “We’ve had several webinars and...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/new-head-of-cvta-focusing-on-entry-level-driver-training-rule

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