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• UPS Readies Freezer Farms to Ship Virus Vaccine — If We Get One August 4, 2020
  United Parcel Service is building two giant freezer farms capable of super-cooling millions of vials of a COVID-19 vaccine, preparing for the day when it will need to deliver the medicine at high speed across the globe.
• Virus Update: Top Pork Producer Defends Virus Response, Trump Orders Limits on Foreign Workers August 3, 2020
  The latest supply-chain news and insights on the novel coronavirus and global response to the outbreak.
• AKI Group Transforms Transportation Operations, Saves $1 Million August 1, 2020
  The Dubai-based conglomerate, facing significant operational inefficiencies and a huge number of different products and customers, moves to assert more control over transportation routing and scheduling.
• How Technology Is Helping a Family-Owned Forwarder to Expand August 1, 2020
  A small forwarder in Puerto Rico had big dreams of expanding its services to meet the need of multimodal shippers, while complying with all document-filing requirements by government regulators.
• A Green Nutritional Powder Catches On, But Its Supply Chain Needed to Catch Up August 1, 2020
  Athletic Greens goes looking for a distribution and e-commerce partner that can help it to maintain service quality with a fast-growing, direct-to-consumer fulfillment model.
• Volkswagen Returns to the U.S. With State-of-the-Art Auto Plant August 1, 2020
  For the first time in more than 20 years, Volkswagen sought to re-enter the U.S. with a new manufacturing plant.
• Fashion Retailer Cleans Up Its Global Fulfillment Process August 1, 2020
  When Mango opted to consolidate its decentralized warehouse network, it needed a vendor to support the new facility’s “one-touch” goods-receiving operation.
• DHL Opens Its First Company Owned and Operated Retail Store in Downtown Chicago July 30, 2020
  DHL Express, a world provider of international shipping services, recently opened its first DHL fully-branded, company-owned retail shipping store in Chicago.
• GlobalTranz Launches Final Mile Offering July 30, 2020
  GlobalTranz Enterprises, LLC, a third-party logistics solutions provider, recently announced the launch of its Final Mile offering.
• Eight Steps to Prevent Chaos As Businesses Reopen July 30, 2020
  Reopening is no small feat, but the task that follows is infinitely more tricky: refocusing your supply chain to bounce back from disruption.