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Hollywood has its Oscars. Music has its Grammys. And charitable logistics has its Humanitarian Logistics Awards. Read on to find out how a supply chain-focused non-profit wound up creating one of the industry’s most selfless honors.
Seven aid workers from the food aid charity World Central Kitchen were killed in Gaza on Monday night when their convoy was attacked in a confirmed Israeli drone strike. This puts the death toll among humanitarians at over 200. Most of them have been Palestinians. Gaza is the most dangerous place in the world to be an aid worker.
LOGY Conference, joka järjestetään vuosittain Suomen Osto- ja Logistiikkayhdistyksen (LOGY) toimesta, on erittäin odotettu kansainvälinen tapahtuma, joka tarjoaa korvaamatonta tietoa ammattilaisille eri aloilta, kuten liiketoiminnan johto, toimitusketjujen hallinta, hankinta, intralogistiikka, [...]
The transport network in Europe is facing severe and frequent disruptions due to the dynamic geo-political situation in the region as well as the aftereffects of climate change. The EU Horizon project ReMuNet (Resilient Multimodal Transport Networks) is focused on improving the resilience of the transport network considering alternate routing options and identifying disruptions and ways to mitigate their effects.
When the humanitarian situation deteriorates for a population that is cut off from the outside world, there are frequently calls for humanitarian aid to be delivered from the air. In 2016, a petition to the UK parliament to air-drop life-saving aid into Syrian cities gained nearly 150,000 signatures. In October 2023, questions have been asked about humanitarian air drops for Gaza to help people cut off from deliveries of food, water, medicines, and other essentials.
Writing a master’s thesis can be an overall experience that demands a major share of the writer’s mental capacity. Then, one beautiful day, the thesis is ready and submitted for grading. This can cause a feeling of emptiness and arouse questions like: what’s next. One possible answer is to share the thesis’ results with an audience. A great way for this is in a scientific conference.
Climate refugees. These are people who are displaced, who have been forced to leave their homes due to the effect of climate change on the environment. I have heard of this term in passing a number of times, but have not thought much about it until lately. I have heard about it a great deal the past few months.
Last week, the HUMLOG Institute Celebrate 15 Years of Bridging Research and Practice. Having engaged with projects, humanitarian organizations, and institutions the world over, this event brought an international presence of researchers, practictioners, and stakeholders to the halls of Hanken for a day discussing the past, present, and future of Humanitarian Logistics.
Anna Dziuba, Ph.D. Associate postdoctoral researcher at the HUMLOG Institute We started interviews with displaced persons from the Ukraine conflict in the Fall of 2022. The conflict itself has highlighted [...]