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Logistics industry delivers HGV simulator to Zambia

Logistics Business Magazine

Four big names from the transport and logistics sector have come together to supply an HGV driver training simulator for the Industrial Training Centre (ITC) in Zambia, which Transaid has partnered with since 2008 to help meet the country’s growing demand for professional driver training.

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Airlines Across the Globe Carry Cargo via Passenger Planes as They Navigate Through the COVID-19 Crisis

Airfreight Logistics

Under the fluctuation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses across several industries are building up their immune system to fight the unprecedented threat by adjusting their businesses, whilst offering humanitarian aid to those who are suffering from the crisis. Consequently, freight rates skyrocketed.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences. For example, as online sales reach a record high, B2C service provider Jet.com uses some creative logistics concepts to bring value to customers.

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‘One step forward, two steps back’

World Food Programme Logistics

it hit industrially advanced countries with much more developed health systems just as hard. A WFP-contracted Boeing 757 at the newly established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium taking PPE to Burkina Faso and Ghana, on behalf of UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross. we still can’t reach it by air.

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For the displaced and the forgotten

World Food Programme Logistics

Partially flexible or “softly earmarked” funding might be tied to a geographical region or a type of activity (for example, emergency response as opposed to development and root causes). They are pushed into debt to meet their basic needs. “My This type of funding may be partially flexible or fully flexible.