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The Ukraine Logistics Coalition with Ben Gordon

The Logistics of Logistics

The situation in the Ukraine grows more desperate every minute and the need for humanitarian aid is enormous and growing. To do this, those of us in the supply chain industry must step up! Open letter to supply chain leaders: Ukraine needs humanitarian relief – FreightWaves. Ben Gordon.

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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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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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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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This Week in Logistics News (March 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

How a global nickel shortage could disrupt the electric vehicle industry. As the war rages on in Ukraine, more and more companies and countries are looking at ways they can help with massive humanitarian aid. I have no choice but to pay it to meet my target crop yields.”

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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. Between classroom lectures, cases, and “applied” learning events with industry, UW-Madison makes sure students are exposed to it all.

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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.