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Schindellegi (dpa) - The logistics company Kuehne + Nagel can book a success in the race for large orders for the corona vaccine transport.

A contract for the worldwide transport and storage of the Covid-19 vaccine from Moderna has been concluded, the group announced on Thursday in Schindellegi, Switzerland.

It's all over the world except the USA, where a competitor was awarded the contract.

The vaccine must be continuously cooled to minus 20 degrees - that is guaranteed, emphasized Kuehne + Nagel.

The contract covers the route from the production facility to a continental distribution center - in Europe, according to Moderna industry circles, this is in Belgium.

The route from this center to the national distribution center - in this case the truck trip from Belgium to Germany - is also included in the contract, after which other logistics agreements apply.

For North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, Kuehne + Nagel is responsible for the “last mile”, namely for distributing all vaccines to mobile vaccination teams and vaccination centers - so far it has only been the preparation from Biontech / Pfizer, and soon it will also come from Moderna added.

A time for this was not given.

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According to their own information, Kühne und Nagel has 230 pharmaceutical locations around the world, in Germany, for example, in Leipzig, Frankfurt am Main and Mainz.

One of Kuehne + Nagel's competitors is Deutsche Post DHL, which, for example, was able to secure vaccine logistics for Lower Saxony and Israel.

Kuehne and Nagel Communication (in English)