Vaccine delivery a risk to other airfreight users

Vaccine delivery a risk to other airfreight users
Brent Melville
As governments spend billions to ensure they are first in the queue for a safe and effective covid-19 vaccine, logistics operators say the challenges of delivering up to two billion doses by the end of 2021 could overwhelm the supply chain. The reality, according to Toll Group managing director Thomas Knudsen, “is that seven billion people around the world aren’t going to get the vaccine on the same day.” Singapore-based Knudsen told a trans-Tasman Business Circle webinar last Friday that vaccine delivery will quickl...

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