Alaska-based Lynden Air Cargo has asked federal regulators to allow airdrops of relief supplies below the current minimum altitude of 1,000 feet after receiving approval to modify a Lockheed L-100 Hercules transport aircraft with a system for delivering pallets out the rear ramp door.
The cargo airline said in a regulatory filing and blog post that the ability to deliver humanitarian aid while aircraft are in flight will help it respond to natural disasters, conflict zones and other...
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I recently had the opportunity to speak to Ben Gordon, founder and managing partner at
Cambridge Capital, a private equity investment firm that acquired a majority stake in Everest Transportation Systems last year. He was in Ukraine, where Everest has...
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The war in Ukraine has been going on since Feb. 24. As a former freight broker, I wanted to get a deeper understanding of how humanitarian shipments work. What goods are being shipped and from where? How do the shipments that pass through Poland make it to...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freight-caviar-8-facts-about-humanitarian-shipments-to-ukraine
Fuel supplier and travel center operator Pilot Company raised more than $1 million for Save the Children’s Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund.
A portion of the funds were raised by customers who rounded up their purchases at more than 650 participating U.S. travel centers and restaurants. Pilot Company gifted $100,000 to the effort, and some of the company’s team members made contributions as well.
“The devastation in Ukraine is heartbreaking,” Shameek Konar, CEO of Pilot Company, said in a release on...
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As Modern Shipper’s Brian Straight wrote at the beginning of March, soldiers win battles, but logistics wins wars. With the fighting in Ukraine making it increasingly difficult for planes, ships and trucks to move goods into and out of the region, humanitarian aid efforts have largely been stymied.
But could the same skies that are now constantly rattled by explosions and gunfire also be an avenue for salvation?
One U.S.-based organization thinks so. Revived Soldiers Ukraine (RSU), one of the...
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have been under siege. Supply chain disruptions have limited access to everything from personal protective equipment to vaccines for both COVID-related illnesses and familiar diseases like the flu, at a time when the globe needs them most.
Seeing those disruptions, a trio of companies — Melbourne, Australia-based Swoop Aero, London’s Skyports and Kelberg, Germany-headquartered BD Rowa — are joining forces to open up an air-based...
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Medical Bridges’ vision:
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“A world in which every person enjoys access
to quality health care with dignity and respect.”
Medical Bridges is one of hundreds of humanitarian aid organizations being impacted by the current global supply chain and competing for space along with all the other commodities.
What is the solution to efficiently and cost-effectively...
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One of the biggest barriers to global humanitarian aid efforts is and has always been access. There’s only so much an organization like the United Nations can do when up against bureaucratic restrictions, thefts of humanitarian assets in transit and, crucially, weak transportation infrastructure.
“More than a billion people are disconnected from reliable roadways,” Kofi Asante, vice president of strategy and business development for drone maker Elroy Air, told eVTOL.com. “That means if you were...
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