When manufacturers begin sending COVID-19 vaccines across the country, they have to use a special shipping container to do so. That special shipping container is the Cold Box which can protect temperature-sensitive cargo, such as the vaccines.
Some of them are made right here in north Alabama. The Cold Box Express in Arab, Alabama has been in business for six years.
In fact, it is the only active ground transportation system in the world that makes and leases cold box storage units, according to CEO and President Foster McDonald.
“Our boxes can hold up to, we believe depending on how the packaging for the vaccines come, 7,000 or 8,000 doses in one box,” said McDonald. Watch the full interview here