Protecting Vaccines,James Bond-Style

摘要

Billions of doses of coronavirus vaccines will be dispatched in the coming months via truck, plane, ship, and rail to hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies around the world. With that cargo worth tens of billions of dollars-and some individual shipments valued at as much as $70 million-one thing is certain: Crooks will try to steal some of it. For freight haulers, the vaccine rollout poses "the biggest security challenge in a generation," says Thorsten Neumann, chief executive officer of the European arm of the Transported Asset Protection Association, an industry group representing companies that carry precious goods.