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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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Are You Ready For Hurricane Season? Part 4

Camelot 3PL Software

This week’s blog will explore how to be helpful after a hurricane makes landfall and not inhibit the professionals who are handling and coordinating resources at the regional or national levels. And if you’d like to learn more about how your donations support our work, click here. The supply chain industry is incredibly generous.

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Drones to the rescue as Cyclone Desmond storms Mozambique

World Food Programme Logistics

These new skills are the result of multiple training opportunities led by WFP on how to fly, map, and coordinate with UAS. The expansion of this technology is an integral part of WFP’s plan to end hunger by 2030, as well as a focus for the forthcoming World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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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.

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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. Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. This gives students a chance to network.