LONDON, Jan 26 AlertNet) – from the delivery of supplies to the disaster zone to set up emergency telecommunications network and send aid payments over the phone, the business contributed cash and expertise to help people affected by humanitarian crises.
But a growing number of aid agencies has been working closely with companies that offer logistical services and new technologies in recent years to find ways to more effectively respond to disasters such as famines, floods and earthquakes.
Since the first experience that helps the Red Cross and Red Crescent in the 2006 Lebanon conflict, agility logistics companies have contributed transport, forklift and warehouse and supply chain knowledge sharing in a State of emergency around 20, for example.