Day 1 - SESSION 2: The Fastest Route to Freshness, Presented by Cool Logistics Global 2020, hosted by Port of Rotterdam. Live from the Cool Logistics Global 2020 virtual conference. 

There is no doubt that members of the cold supply chain have risen to the challenge of keeping world trade in food and medicines flowing in the face of pandemic challenges that have included sea and land border congestion, equipment and shipment displacement, a huge shift to remote working, frontline labour shortages and increased health security requirements and restrictions.

Shipping, trucking, rail, processing, pack houses, ports, terminals, cold stores and other key cold chain nodes and modes have all been affected - in some cases negatively but for others positively, generating new investment and business opportunities.

So now, how should members of the global cold supply chain move forward collectively to flexibly manage continued shocks and alleviate systemic risks to food and pharma cargoes, people, assets and infrastructure?

Join Moderator, Steve Cameron, Director at Cameron Maritime Resources and panellists, Franklin Gius, Chief Mission Officer at Befrank, Matthijs Montsma, Post Harvest Programme Manager at Wageningen University and Michel Jansen, Managing Director at Total Produce, for this stimulating podcast episode.

If you haven't seen the press coverage, please find a link to an HFW website article about a major project relating to the Moderna vaccine on which we have been advising: HFW | HFW Advises ICTSI On Landmark Philippines Covid-19.

We are currently advising lines, 3PLs and terminal operators on their cold storage/pharma products with a view to winning vaccine business. Last year, my team also advised on PPE logistics contracts aggregating over USD1 billion in value.

Join Nick Savvides, Managing Editor, Container News, Michael Yarwood, Managing Director Loss Prevention, TT Club, Craig Neame, Partner, HFW and Al Tama, Vice President and General Manager Container & Port Solutions, ORBCOMM as they discuss Legal, Loss Prevention & Compliance. The technical and technological dimensions of covid-19 vaccine logistics. Including; Safe carriage of COVID-19 vaccines, key considerations to managing risk and prevent loss, supply chain liability, legal and insurance implications for container logistics and transport providers, In-transit visibility, traceability and chain of custody - IoT, data and digitalisation. As well as discussing managing contractual obligations, regulatory processes and documentation for cross-border vaccine trade.

What can the container industry do to help in the fight against theft and counterfeiting of vaccines and ancillaries? What can the container industry do to help in the fight against theft and counterfeiting of vaccines and ancillaries?

· Awareness and training (market forces) on what are theft attractive commodities and how they are ever-changing.

· Development and provision of security solutions, track, trace, security seals.

· Due diligence in contractor selection where applicable.

· Vigilance

· Information security

· Collaboration, sharing experience and knowledge of incidents.

Cool Logistics talks to Vassilios Demetriades, Shipping Deputy Minister to the President, the Republic of Cyprus about the Cypriot initiative to develop a global vaccination programme for seafarers. What the governments of the world need to do to help seafarers. 

Hear from Hristo Petkov, Global Vertical Head of Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, A.P Moller-Maersk and Sebastian Steinmüller, Director Global Reefer Competency Center, DHL Global Forwarding at the Cool Logistics and Container News, Containing Covid-19: Contianerisatiosn role in global vaccine logistics conference, 2021, regarding vaccine logistics and the challenges they face in the current Covid-19 pandemic. 

Hristo Petkov, Global Vertical Head of Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, A.P Moller-Maersk

Hristo will shares the experience at A.P. Moller - Maersk in supporting customers with air to ocean conversion with a focus on reliability with higher quality, efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint.

Sebastian Steinmüller, Director Global Reefer Competency Center, DHL Global Forwarding

Sebastian focuses on some of the new technology tools and approaches developed by DHL to secure visibility and control along vaccine, pharma and healthcare logistics and transport chains.

Hear from Al Tama, Vice President and General Manager Container & Port Solutions, Orbcomm at the Cool Logistics and Container News event, Containing Covid-19: Containerisation's role in global vaccine logistics. 

Al Tama gives you an update on IoT technology developments for global visibility of container shipments at sea and on land with a particular focus on cold chain monitoring and control.

Rachael White, Managing Director, Cool Logistics Resources and Nick Savvides, Managing Editor, Container News, welcome and introduce this podcast series based on the event Containing Covid-19: Containerisation's role in global vaccine logistics. 

While the first wave of ultra-low temperature COVID19 vaccine distribution has been centered around airfreight and road, sea freight, containerisation and multimodal logistics are already playing a vital role. Over the coming months and years, that will only grow.

Today, container shipping is already enabling the international distribution of syringes, vials, PPE and other key ancillary medical equipment needed to administer vaccines. Container ports are stepping up as vaccine logistics hubs, working with airfreight, ocean and landside logistics to provide much-needed cold storage capacity and other supply chain services.

Specialist ultra-deep freeze refrigerated containers are already filling a gap where cold chain infrastructure is lacking. And as new vaccines are rolling out rapidly that do not require such deep refrigeration, reefer containers will have a key role both in transport and storage, as they have done for some years now with increased conversion of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical cargoes from air to sea freight.

This online seminar and virtual networking event connects public and private stakeholders across the global container shipping, cold chain logistics and healthcare worlds to discuss the challenges and opportunities of containerised vaccine logistics at a time

This podcase series has 3 major inter-related areas of focus:

1) Outlook for container logistics to support the global vaccine distribution effort across multimodal (cold) chains across sea and land (and in conjunction with air)

2) Safe and compliant carriage of COVID19 vaccines – legal, insurance, risk, liability and technology aspects

3) Vaccination programmes and health security protocols/regulations / technology for seafarers, port personnel and other key workers

Based on the keynotes presented in episode 3, within this series of podcasts, presented by Cool Logistics and Container News from Covid-19: Containerisation's role in global vaccine logistics conference 2021, you can now listen to this Q&A with Hristo Petkov, Global Vertical Head of Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, A.P Moller-Maersk Sebastian Steinmüller, Director Global Reefer Competency Center, DHL Global Forwarding. 

Hristo Petkov, Global Vertical Head of Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare

Hristo answers questions based on the experiences at A.P. Moller - Maersk supporting customers with air to ocean conversion with a focus on reliability with higher quality, efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint.

Sebastian Steinmüller, Director Global Reefer Competency Center, DHL Global Forwarding

Sebastian answers questions on some of the new technology tools and approaches developed by DHL to secure visibility and control along vaccine, pharma and healthcare logistics and transport chains.

Moderator, Rachael White, Managing Director, Cool Logistics Resources, join a panel of speakers including:

Michael Culme Seymour - Consultant Wolrd Economic Forum/Vice President, and Managing Director, APAC for Roambee Ltd  

Sebastian Steinmüller - Director Global Reefer Competency Center, DHL Global Forwarding  

Hristo Petkov - Global Vertical Head of Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare, A.P. Moller-Maersk  

Siddharth Adya - Vice President Group Cargo Solutions and Platform Development, PSA International

In this episode we hear about, What roles can ports play in global and regional vaccine supply chains, what support, aside from logistics, can containerised sea freight and ports play to support the global Covid-19 supply chain efforts and how we should safeguard vaccine integrity across complex multimodal cold chains (including air + sea). 

The panel also discusses, containerised vaccine logistics over the next 2 years - global and regional outlook, will there be enough of the right reefer containers to fulfill demand and how will other segments of the market be impacted, what the implications are for ports and other critical (cold chain) infrastructure at a time of global congestion and what the container industry do to help in the fight against theft and counterfeiting of vaccines and ancillaries.