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Delivering Relief Aid at a Moment’s Notice

Airfreight Logistics

Behind the scenes of the Aid & Relief sector, work is continuously underway to make sure when a crisis occurs, supplies and teams are ready. The primary objectives of humanitarian aid are to save lives, alleviate suffering, and to provide materials and assistance to people in need. Mr. Stuart Smith. Handling it All.

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Tool Enhances Ukraine-EU Rail Visibility

Logistics Business Magazine

The Solidarity Lanes also allows Ukraine to import the products they need, including humanitarian aid. In the course of one year, roughly €55bn in freight is being processed on our platform. Every day they execute more than 110,000 transports on our platform and book more than 100,000 dock-appointments for loading and unloading.

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Toyota donates forklift to aid Ukraine

Logistics Business Magazine

Boxes of Hope, a humanitarian aid charity that was established to send food, clothing, medicine and other essential items to the people of Ukraine following the country’s invasion by Russia, has taken delivery of a vinyl-wrapped forklift truck donated free-of-charge by Toyota Material Handling (TMH) UK Ltd. The forklift – a 2.5

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Lunch is served

World Food Programme Logistics

immediately after the food distributions. Towards the end of each month, they are forced to cut down to one in order to stretch the food stocks to the next monthly food distribution. “I The students have more time in class and fewer interruptions in learning over the course of the school year. This is a big relief for me.”

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Stuck on the wrong side of the world but still needing to deliver food to people in Ethiopia 5,000…

World Food Programme Logistics

My job entails the day-to-day running of the office, coordinating with UNHCR, nutrition partners, government counterparts, and overseeing a variety of operations like food distributions for refugees and livelihood assistance like crop production, livestock, fisheries, backyard gardening, bee keeping and banana cultivation.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. In one logistics class, we turn the classroom into a distribution center for a period, and play a simulation game. My courses change from year to year based on industry events and trends.

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Cash as answer to hunger

World Food Programme Logistics

Micheline Ngalara smiles as she counts the money she has just received during the last distribution to internally displaced people (IDPs) of the Djugu territory. I can pay for my family’s healthcare and school fees as well as food, of course. “We Micheline Ngalara during the cash distributions in the village of Loto, Ituri province.