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In the coming months, billions of doses of coronavirus vaccines will be dispatched via truck, plane, ship and rail to hospitals, clinics and pharmacies around the world. With that cargo worth tens of billions of dollars — and some individual shipments valued as high as $70 million — one thing is certain: Crooks will try to steal some of it. For freight haulers, the vaccine rollout poses “the biggest security challenge in a generation,” says Thorsten Neu­mann, chief executive officer of the European arm of the Transported Asset Protection Association, an industry group representing ...

Share: Moderna Inc.'s (NASDAQ: MRNA) new COVID-19 vaccine, the Swiss third-party logistics powerhouse said Thursday. The news follows Wednesday's approval by the European Commission for the drug to be administered on a conditional basis. The EU has ordered 160 million doses from Moderna and the first deliveries to European countries from Moderna's dedicated non-U.S. supply chain are expected to begin next week, according to the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company. On Friday, U.K. health authorities also granted Moderna temporary use authorization for COVID-19 vaccinations as ...

Abu Dhabi: The newly-launched Hope Consortium, a UAE-based public-private partnership, has bolstered its distribution reach following a strategic agreement with leading international freight forwarders. The latest consortium partners, which include Agility, Aramex, Hellmann and Kuehne + Nagel, will help address the different steps of the logistical challenge, including the ‘last mile’ challenge, with a capacity of billions of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses by the end of 2021. Spearheaded by the Department of Health — Abu Dhabi (DoH), the Hope Consortium appointed these global transport compan...