All Humanitarian aid articles – Page 2

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    Panalpina in South Sudan relief flight

    2017-12-18T11:12:34Z

    Panalpina has assisted the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) by flying relief aid to Africa to help children suffering in South Sudan.A Panalpina chartered cargo aircraft landed in the early hours of Saturday morning in neighboring Uganda, carrying nearly 80 tons of supplies including emergency shelters, water treatment equipment ...

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    Astral flies into Yemen as blockade is lifted

    2017-11-27T12:47:37Z

    Kenya-based Astral Aviation has operated a humanitarian flight from Nairobi to Sanaa in Yemen - the first aircraft to land at the airport after the Saudi led coalition lifted a three-week blockade.The Boeing 727-200 freighter landed on Saturday 25 November with 15 tons of vaccines for over 600,000 children on ...

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    Ethiopian continues humanitarian collaboration with Boeing

    2017-06-05T10:43:40Z

    Ethiopian Airlines has flown 6.5 tons of humanitarian relief cargo from Seattle to Ethiopia on behalf of Conscience International (CI), Horn of Africa Neonatal Development Services and Seattle Alliance Outreach (SAO).The carrier picked up the shipment, bound for St Paul’s Hospital and Bahir Dar University College of Medicine & Health ...

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    Ethiopian's latest A350 delivery arrives with humanitarian aid on board

    2017-05-03T14:34:28Z

    Ethiopian Airlines, the German NGO Humedica, Aviation without Borders and the Airbus Foundation have joined forces to transport of nine tonnes of humanitarian aid from Europe to Africa.The goods, received in Addis Ababa, are destined to provide relief to drought prone areas in the East African region.The cargo arrived from ...

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    GEFCO UK appoints new head of humanitarian division

    2016-12-07T15:37:45Z

    GEFCO Forwarding UK Ltd has appointed Ben Cunnington to head its Humanitarian Relief Logistics division.Cunnington brings over six years’ experience in the transport and logistics sector, having also held a range of senior roles at TNT Express, Energy Armor Racing, Tesco PLC, and PDC Diving.“We are delighted to be able ...

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    Drone test to deliver humanitarian aid

    2016-06-10T06:09:43Z

    Independent drone delivery service Flirtey has teamed up with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US to demonstrate the use of unmanned aircraft in delivering humanitarian aid to a disaster area.Flirtey and Timothy Amukele, assistant professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University, will conduct the first ship-to-shore drone ...

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    Aviation leaders talk about global humanitarian aid

    2016-06-02T15:28:17Z

    Chief executives from major airlines and other partners have discussed the roles which the aviation sector can fulfill in delivering humanitarian aid.The interviews were conducted by Airlink, a non-profit organisation that links more than 35 commercial and charter airlines with humanitarian aid groups to fill cargo holds with aid goods ...

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    Volga-Dnepr looks to expand in aerospace, humanitarian and oil & gas

    2016-02-16T12:12:50Z

    Volga-Dnepr Airlines has announced the appointment of three global directors to push its expansion in the aerospace, humanitarian, and oil & gas sectors.Axel Kaldschmidt has been appointed global director, aerospace Industry.Aerospace customers account for 30% of Volga-Dnepr’s annual business and since its launch, the airline has operated over 5,250 flights ...

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    Airlec Ambulance wins BACA Humanitarian Award

    2015-10-15T15:14:46Z

    The UK Baltic Air Charter Association (BACA) has presented the BACA Humanitarian Award to Airlec Ambulance for their "outstanding action during the Ebola Crisis".During the Autumn of 2014, against all official advice and notifications, Airlec Ambulance evacuated eight Ebola patients from West Africa. The award was presented to Airlec managing ...

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    Welcome relief: Focus on humanitarian aid charters

    2015-10-01T08:23:29Z

    Africa’s Ebola virus, a typhoon in the Philippines and an earthquake in Nepal. Each humanitarian crisis is unique but they share a common factor: freighters help save lives.The air charter team at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) is often a lead relief aid agency when a global disaster ...

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    Volga-Dnepr delivers 45 tons of humanitarian cargo to Nepal

    2015-05-13T14:38:06Z

    Volga-Dnepr has delivered 45 tons of humanitarian cargo on behalf of the Norwegian Red Cross to help earthquake victims in Nepal.A Rapid Deployment Emergency Hospital with surgical capacity and 60 beds was transported from Oslo to Kathmandu over two flights in the first week of May using Volga-Dnepr’s IL-76TD-90VD freighter ...

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    Chartersphere airlifts humanitarian aid to Central African Republic

    2015-03-05T10:08:24Z

    GLOBAL broker Chartersphere has helped to deliver urgent humanitarian aid to the troubled Central African Republic.The landlocked tiny nation, which borders Chad in the north, and Sudan in the north-east, has been in the grip of inter-ethnic violence between Christians and Muslims for the past 12 months.Thousands of people have ...

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    Chapman Freeborn and Lufthansa Cargo airlift humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees

    2013-11-13T13:14:55Z

    CHAPMAN Freeborn and Lufthansa Cargo have successfully collaborated on a high-profile charter project which utilised the cargo facility on the site of Germany’s new Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which is still under construction.The operation – a humanitarian airlift arranged on behalf of the Red Cross – was the first time the ...

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    Chapman Freeborn and Lufthansa Cargo airlift humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees

    2013-10-03T15:51:31Z

    CHAPMAN Freeborn and Lufthansa Cargo have successfully collaborated on a high-profile charter project which utilised the cargo facility on the site of Germany’s new Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which is still under construction.The operation – a humanitarian airlift arranged on behalf of the Red Cross – was the first time the ...

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    Flying humanitarian cargo 'challenging'

    2012-10-10T08:02:38Z

    A CHARTER specialist that evacuated 12,000 people within six weeks during the ‘Arab Spring’ has spoken about the challenges of organising humanitarian effort in the wake of the Syrian crisis.Air Partner’s emergency planning team, which provides a 24-hour air evacuation planning and implementation service, was also involved in flying aid ...

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    MoU to aid humanitarian logistics signed

    2009-01-26T23:00:00Z

    INTERNATIONAL Medical Corps (IMC) and Agility, a global logistics leader, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that outlines plans to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of humanitarian relief.The agreement details plans for Agility supply chain management experts to support International Medical Corps’ operations in the field. During emergencies, Agility will ...