News / Forwarders see their cargo bumped as vaccine shipments take off

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It’s started: forwarders are beginning to feel the pain as vaccine distribution begins – they are getting bumped from booked flights.

“Singapore Airlines has been loading vaccines in Amsterdam for the past few days,” claimed one European air freight forwarder, “I keep getting freight offloaded. It’s started.”

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which was today licensed by the UK, is made in Belgium as well as in Michigan, Massachusetts and St. Louis in the US, while BioNTech was reportedly considering sites in Germany too.

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