pharmaceutical companies need to scale up for the biggest and most consequential product launch in modern history.“We’re not prepared," Neel Jones Shah, global head of air carrier relationships at San Francisco-based freight forwarder Flexport, said during a webinar this week with other logistics executives.“Let’s all be honest here, vaccine supply chains are exponentially more complex than PPE supply chain," he said, referring to personal protective equipment like surgical masks and gloves. “You can’t ruin PPE by leaving it on the tarmac for a couple of days.
You will destroy vaccines."8,000 Cargo PlanesJulian Sutch, head of Emirates SkyCargo’s pharmaceutical division, estimated recently that a single Boeing Co.