Economics

The Vaccine Cargo Cavalry Sizes Up Readiness of Historic Airlift

  • Just 28% of logistics firms are well prepared, survey shows
  • Industry teams to anticipate supply-chain kinks, hurdles

    

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

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The medical industry’s dash to produce the world’s first coronavirus vaccines in just a few months is heightening the urgency for the workhorses of global trade to be ready for the historic charge to defeat the disease.