Vaccine

Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS remains highly focused on its Covid-19 vaccine distribution efforts, at a time when the FDA recently announced it expanded an emergency use authorization, for children ages 5-to-11, coupled with positive case numbers up in various parts of the United States.

Atlanta-based global transportation and logistics services provider UPS recently announced it has formed a partnership with Novavax, a global biotech company, focused on the distribution and delivery of Novavax’ recently-approved COVID-19 vaccine to 27 European Union countries.

The last thing most Americans want imported from Canada is the noise, chaos and tension associated with a two-week trucker protest that occurred in Ottawa and on key border crossings. But that appears to be what’s heading to Washington, D.C.

A COVID-19 vaccine mandate imposed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for cross-border truckers that took effect on Jan. 15 is having little impact on trucking capacity between the two nations. The Canadian Trucking Alliance has estimated that 85% of Canada’s 120,000 truckers were vaccinated. Earlier, Canadian truck drivers and other “essential” workers had been exempt from Canada’s two-week quarantine for unvaccinated travelers crossing between the two countries.

By a 6-3 margin with all six conservative judges ruling in tandem, the Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated decision against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) “vaccine or test” Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).

The trucking industry is suing over President Joe Biden’s vaccine policy that requires private sector employers with over 100 employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The American Trucking Associations (ATA), along with the Louisiana Motor Truck Association, the Mississippi Trucking Association and the Texas Trucking Association, joined other business groups representing various facets of the supply chain in suing the Biden administration over its employer-based COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

The trucking industry is blasting President Joe Biden’s vaccine policy for not allowing an exemption from a federal mandate that requires private sector employers with over 100 employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

This white paper, highlighting the niche of vaccine cold chain monitoring, will help one better understand the key watch outs and the value Advantech technology will add.

The reading for the report’s key indicator—the Services PMI (formerly the Non-Manufacturing PMI)—came in at 63.7 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth is occurring) in March, an 8.4% increase over February’s 55.3. This reading represents the tenth consecutive month of services sector growth, at a faster rate, as well as its highest monthly reading going back to October 2018’s 60.9. Services sector growth has seen gains in 132 of the last 134 months.

The research firm offers up 10 questions help focus strategic decision making related to COVID-19 vaccine distribution.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman and Johnathan Foster, principal consultant, at Proxima, a strategic team of procurement specialists with more than 25 years of consultation and supply chain experience, talked about various topics, including the many moving logistics parts of the ongoing distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, supply chain disruption, and the cold chain, among other topics.

The parcel duopoly of Memphis-based FedEx and Atlanta-based UPS respectively announced over the weekend that they have hit the ground running in their efforts to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine.

Now that multiple pharmaceutical companies have stated that they have COVID-19 vaccines ready to go to help end the myriad troubles and travails that have been in full effect in the United States since mid-March, eyes are locking in on the logistics sector, and for good reason.

Commenting on the news of a potential vaccine for Covid-19, Professor Richard Wilding OBE, Professor of Supply Chain Strategy at Cranfield University notes that this is likely to be one of the biggest supply chain management challenges we have faced this century.