A Logistics Capacity Assessment is a study of a country’s logistics infrastructure. They are designed to obtain information about a country’s or region’s food aid transportation infrastructure.
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Relief operation in Mozambique
09 September 2008
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TNT’s donation of both money and personnel played an invaluable role in making the emergency response a success. –Ken Davies, WFP Representative Mozambique
Myanmar cyclone: Emergency response
24 June 2008
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Last week Saturday a destructive cyclone hit the Asian country Myanmar. As new information comes in daily, it now becomes clear that the cyclone had a devastating effect. Disease, hunger and thirst pose a major threat to hundreds of thousands of survivors.
Our colleagues in the area
It was very difficult to get information from our colleagues at the TNT agent in Myanmar, but fortunately this message came to us yesterday: Andrew Bawi Lian, Operations Manager of TNT Myanmar, wrote:
Logistics Emergency Teams (LET)
29 April 2008
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The support of Logistics Emergency Teams (LETs) includes providing logistics specialists (e.g. airport coordination, airport managers and warehouse managers), logistics assets (e.g. warehouses, trucks, forklifts) and transportation services. LETs will intervene for the first three to six weeks following a natural disaster such as an earthquake, flood, or storm.
The LETs programme presents an incredible opportunity to bring the full weight of the logistics industry to bear at a time when lives are in the balance. -Dan Brutto, President, UPS International.
