Humanitarian logistics

Uber, United Nations join forces to deliver food in war-torn Ukraine

Uber delivery car in Ukraine

The war in Ukraine has pummeled global supply chains, limiting the country’s ability to export key natural resources like silver — and import crucial supplies like food.

To combat the growing food insecurity in war-torn Ukraine, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has turned to an unlikely source.

This week, WFP released a joint statement with mobility and delivery powerhouse Uber (NYSE: UBER), announcing that the technology company is lending a custom-built version of its platform to the...

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Nonprofit plans to use medical drones to save Ukrainian soldiers, civilians

Revived Soldiers Ukraine, a U.S.-based non-profit, will use drones to deliver aid to Ukrainian soldiers and civilians

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...

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Elroy Air, AYR Logistics partner to use drones for humanitarian aid

Elroy Air partners with AYR Logistics to deploy drones to deliver humanitarian aid

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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The health care supply chain for humanitarian aid — Medically Necessary

Medically Necessary is a podcast by Matt Blois about the health care supply chain — how we get drugs, devices and medical supplies to health care providers and patients.

Under normal circumstances, health care providers simply order the supplies they need. In a disaster, the typical supply channels may not be an option, or health care providers may not be able to afford to buy products. That’s where humanitarian aid distributors come to help. 

On this episode of Medically Necessary, Matt Blois looks at how the nonprofit medical distribution organization Direct Relief operates across the U.S. and in 80 other countries around the world.

He welcomes CEO Thomas Tighe...

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Cargo planes head to Beirut with relief supplies

U.S. military fork lift puts pallets on a truck as part of airlift of relief supplies to Beirut, which is suffering the effects of a huge explosion at the port.

Governments are deploying cargo planes loaded with humanitarian aid following Tuesday’s massive explosion at the Port of Beirut, which Lebanese officials say killed at least 137 and wounded more than 5,000.

A plane donated by the government of the United Arab Emirates arrived Wednesday with 20 tons of medical supplies from the World Health Organization’s logistics hub in Dubai to help treat up to 2,000 patients injured in the blast, according to the WHO.

The U.S. military is sending three C-17...

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The humanitarian face of logistics: Suzy is our hero of the week

Here at The Loadstar, even before Covid, we received a lot of press releases reminding us how crucial the supply chain is; how beneficial logistics is to the world.
Whether it’s an airline touting that it has carried life-saving pharmaceuticals, or a forwarder arranging to deliver goods to a crisis-hit country, the PR machine is constant. (Despite the fact that airlines carry goods – that is their job – and forwarders …

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Factories switch production to boost medical supplies to fight Covid-19

Growing numbers of companies are changing tack, shelving production of normal wares to make hand sanitiser and other medical products.
Some forwarders, meanwhile, are offering to ship them.
French luxury group LMVH has switched its luxury perfumes for sanitiser, while small gin distilleries across the UK and Ireland and France’s Pernod Ricard have also stepped in as alcohol supplies in Europe dwindle.
Flow Water Technologies has offered to supply the Cyprus government with disinfectant …

The...

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