Demand for air cargo continues to increase as shipping disruptions persist, industry executives tell FOX Business, adding that ocean shipping companies are becoming airlines as well.
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Fed up with cargo congestion, freight forwarders flee O’Hare airport
Responsive service in Rockford attracts freighter operators to alternative Midwest gateway
0 25 8 minutes read Chicago O Hare freighter ramp. Airport warehouses are overrun with cargo, creating shipping delays for importers and exporters. (Photo: Flickr/formulanone CC BY 2.0)
Cargo congestion has gone from bad to worse at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, forcing importers to wait several days to retrieve shipments and prompting two large logistics companies to migrate airfreight operations an hour west to an uncrowded facility in Rockford, Illinois.
There is so much cargo piling up at O’Hare that airline-handling agents for the first time in memory are actually renting warehouses in surrounding townships to hold the overflow until it can be sorted for customer pickup, local trucking and logistics professionals say.
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The various Covid-19 vaccines all have special cold storage requirements, which Lufthansa Cargo is equipped to handle.
The cargo industry has already been overwhelmed this year by how many people shopping from home, leading to shipping surges and late packages.
There will likely be a fight for space between vaccines, Amazon packages, furniture, cars, and other cargo.
We went inside to see how the team is getting ready to ship up to 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses a day.
Following is a transcipt of the video.
Narrator: Cargo planes like this MD-11 will soon be transporting the most anticipated vaccine of the 21st century. Prior to the coronavirus, Lufthansa Cargo invested $5 million to upgrade its facility at Chicago O Hare International Airport to handle a lot more pharmaceutical cargo 200 tons a day, to be exact. So when pharma companies began to develop the coronavirus vaccine, Lufthansa was in a fortuitous position. Vaccine manufacturers reached out to the company, which