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Brexit Is a New World Businesses Still Need to Figure Out

British businesses probably didn’t expect to start 2021 worrying about wooden pallets after a year of grappling with the coronavirus and a meltdown in the economy.

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Watch: Maintaining the Cold Chain for Vaccine Distribution

Jason Burns, director of corporate development with Dropoff and first vice president of the Customized Logistics & Delivery Association, outlines the challenges that pharmaceutical manufacturers face in maintaining strict temperature controls for delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Maintaining the Cold Chain for Vaccine Distribution

To Winter-Proof Your Supply Chain, Consider These Three Factors

With the first winter weather of the pandemic bearing down across the U.S., shippers are looking to ensure their supply chains aren't further disrupted by freezing temperatures.

A U.S. Postal Service mail truck drives down a snowy street. Photo: Shutterstock.

Brexit Deal Hands Business a Mix of Relief, Unwanted Change

The U.K. and European Union may have signed a trade deal, but British businesses still face a raft of difficult changes.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo: Bloomberg.

Bottlenecks Wear Down World Economy’s Fleet of Container Ships

Container shipping, the backbone of the global trading system, is showing signs of fatigue as the pandemic descends into its darkest days.

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U.K. Faces Food Crisis Threat as Virus Surge Blocks Trade

The U.K. is confronting threats of food insecurity and panicked shopping days before Christmas as European nations restricted trade and travel to guard against a resurgent coronavirus.

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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.

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.

Three Route-Planning Basics for Large-Scale Retailers

As retail operations grow increasingly complex, delivery planning becomes a crucial part of the entire logistics supply chain.

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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.

Photo: Bloomberg

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