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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. Whilst Cebu Pacific (CE?B)

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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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Yemen: How is WFP supporting the humanitarian community?

World Food Programme Logistics

3) Transporting humanitarian aid, fuel and supplies by sea. During the recent five-day ‘humanitarian pause’, WFP managed to move a sea shipment of 120,000 litres of fuel into Hodeidah. 6) Providing air services for aid workers. © WFP.

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‘One step forward, two steps back’

World Food Programme Logistics

We wanted to fly in a restricted environment so all our humanitarian aid, resources and personnel could reach countries where borders were closed. Aid workers were stuck all around the world and we needed to get them to the places where they were needed most. we still can’t reach it by air.

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From civil engineering to civil conflict: Portrait of an aid boss

World Food Programme Logistics

But it was building roads in Liberia that would help pave the way for his later humanitarian assignments in Eritrea, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Italy and Syria. To be an aid official in a war zone takes diplomacy and grit. safe, unhindered access so that aid workers can do what they are meant to do, deliver.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

For example, as online sales reach a record high, B2C service provider Jet.com uses some creative logistics concepts to bring value to customers. For example, understanding collaboration and communication is as important as understanding modeling and technology. But hard skills must be coupled with soft skills.

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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.