COVID-19
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Seventeen percent of SMEs in danger of closing
Canadian Federation of Independent Business says about 181,000 Canadian small business owners are contemplating closing
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Amazon offers to help in U.S. vaccine distribution
Prepared to “leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist”, CEO says
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Partners modify planes to help vaccine distribution
Tecnam and DESMON work together to create vaccine transport to remote areas
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Port of Prince Rupert moves record cargo in 2020
Bulk exports make up for container declines
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Seaway throughput held steady in 2020
Record shipments of grain offsetting a decline in liquid bulk, dry bulk and iron ore
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Port of LA bounces back
Container business in 2020 was “most erratic” ever seen, says executive director
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Ontario expanding big box retail blitz
Initial wave of inspections checking retailers for those eschewing masks and ignoring physical distancing guidelines found only 70 percent of sites they visited were adhering to Covid-19 public health measures
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Entrepreneurs upbeat about 2021
Survey finds they plan to invest more in 2021 than they did last year as the vaccine rolls out
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Push on vaccine delivery in Canada not expected until April
Deliveries of vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna will hit one million doses per week starting in April
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Ocean carriers battle the Covid cargo crunch
To stabilize supply chains all parties need to work together, rather than assigning blame