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The closure of the U.S. land borders with Canada and Mexico for nonessential travel will extend through Jan. 21, though commercial trucks remain exempt.

LATAM Airlines is offering to move domestic shipments of vaccines for free.

Nobody likes a line cutter, but when it comes to the rush delivery of COVID-19 vaccines, the Federal Aviation Administration is making an exception.

The more dry ice used to cool a pharmaceutical shipment, the less product that can be carried on a plane. That’s because dry ice is poisonous when it turns to gas. The FAA issued guidelines to help airlines manage the dry ice risk.

It’s not just container shipping that’s rolling in profits. LPG tanker rates are hitting new highs on Asian demand for U.S. propane.

Who will get to the front of the COVID vaccination line? Virtually everyone agrees front-line doctors and nurses, and people in nursing homes, should be first, but after that industry sectors are fighting over who is more important. Freight transportation groups say they should be in the top tier.

Empty containers returning to Asia jumped 55% to 283,563 units.

Operation COVID Logistics is underway, with the auxiliary materials to administer vaccines moving out to local distribution sites.

“Additional stress on an already-overloaded system tends to further destabilize the system.”

U.S. officials at Operation Warp Speed say they are ready to go with the COVID-19 vaccine distribution, but a high-ranking state health official says people should be prepared for hiccups based on recent trials

FedEx Canada and Innomar Strategies secure a Canadian government contract to distribute millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses.

The all-time best month tops the mark set in just October.

The trans-Pacific surge will persist through Q1 and January could see all-time-high container volumes, predicts Flexport’s Nerijus Poskus.

The heavy-lift cargo plane is not the first aircraft that comes to mind for coronavirus vaccine delivery, but with the right planning, Volga-Dnepr says it can move many huge amounts of doses at once.

“This is one of the most difficult seasons we’ve been facing trying to move our cargo out of the United States,” says a California almond producer.

Beyond the EU, the U.K. will have to busy itself establishing bilateral air service agreements with other countries as well.

“We’re able to reach virtually 100% of our customers in Florida overnight from Jacksonville, which was a real selling point for us,” says aftermarket auto parts retailer.

Antonov Airlines is bringing back its mammoth An-225 freighter, the only one of its kind in the world, to help alleviate a shortage of aircraft following the grounding of eight An-124 jumbo jets for safety reasons.

Trans-Pacific spot index rates haven’t budged from the same peak band for the past 10 weeks. How is this possible in a competitive free market?

Express carriers like DHL are getting slammed with e-commerce shipments as the holidays approach, and transportation contractors like Cargojet are throwing resources into the response.