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What an Unpredictable Year Means for Freight Costs in 2021

Although projections indicate that maritime trade will recover and expand next year, it's becoming clear that disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting impact on the industry.

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What Happens When Tycoons Abandon Their Giant Cargo Ships

COVID-19 has wrought havoc everywhere, but in the nominally regulated shipping industry it’s fueling a worrying practice: the abandonment of ships, cargo and seafarers with no way to get home.

An Aug. 4 explosion tore through the Port of Beirut. Photo: Bloomberg.

U.S. Sees First Hiccups in Push to Deliver COVID-19 Vaccine

The first hiccups in the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. included a holdup in delivering 3,900 shots to two states and the announcement that Pfizer would deliver about 900,000 fewer doses next week than are set to ship this week.

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: Bloomberg.

Reimagining Pharma Supply Chains Could Speed Vaccine Distribution in Months Ahead

The coronavirus pandemic has been a long and difficult slog, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel.

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U.K. Businesses Plead for Time to Avoid Brexit Cliff Edge

As trade talks have come down to the wire, companies have to try to adapt for life beyond Dec. 31 without knowing the fundamental rules of engagement.

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Island-Hopping Drones to Help Bridge Vaccine Equality Divide

For tricky distribution regions, remote-control aircraft could be the answer — having already worked well delivering medicine in hard-to-reach parts of Africa and Canada.

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Vaccine D-Day Begins With Rollout of First 2.9 Million Doses

The first COVID-19 vaccine arrived in record time, an essential step toward ending the pandemic. Now comes the hard part.

A worker moves a case into a temperature-controlled vaccine shipping container. Photo: Bloomberg.

Podcast | What It Takes to Make Direct-to-Consumer Fulfillment Work

Retailers selling over the internet can’t hope to compete without a reliable and effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) model for fulfillment. But setting one up is anything but easy.

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Schneider Bulk Express Intermodal Service Expands to Canada

Schneider, a provider of trucking, intermodal and logistics services, is expanding its Bulk Express Intermodal service into Canada. Eight years after it helped pioneer the service in the United States, Schneider is now bringing its benefits to bulk shippers across North America.

Brexit Stockpiling Frenzy Fuels Chaos in Cross-Channel Trade

The split from the European Union is fueling an increasingly frenzied demand for goods, creating traffic snarl-ups at ports and highways on both sides of the English Channel and leading to at least one major factory shutdown.

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Fidelity Calls for Urgent Action to Help 400,000 Stranded Seafarers

Fidelity International is calling for urgent action to address the humanitarian crisis and supply-chain risks caused by the more than 400,000 seafarers who are stranded aboard vessels and a similar number who remain ashore with little prospect for work or pay.

Source: Bloomberg

Christmas Tree Sellers Run Into Surprise COVID-19 Costs

Christmas tree vendors got a jump on sales this year as buyers looking to chase away pandemic blues started the season early. But all that demand may not necessarily translate into fat profits for sellers of evergreens or the farmers who grow them.

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