When a disaster strikes, relief logistics entities support charitable organisations in delivering aid and emergency items to the impacted areas. In this episode, our host Sara Vollmer and her guest Cormac O'Sullivan, Global Head of Emergency and Relief Logistics, discuss how Emergency and Relief Logistics experts at Kuehne+Nagel develop strategies to deliver emergency aid when most of the established logistics infrastructure is destroyed. They also talk about the potential paths of entering this sector.

Key topics of this episode are: What emergency and relief is, how emergency and relief experts prepare before and act after a disaster, how to join this community or change from other fields of logistics to relief logistics and how we can prepare for geopolitical changes.

Recorded in November 2023.

Details:

(2:08) Cormac talks about Emergency and Relief Logistics, its history, different sectors and community.

(06:16) Cormac explains how the emergency and relief global community can predict which areas are more likely to be hit by disasters, which allows them to adopt pre-positioning strategies in various areas of the world.

(10:05) Cormac then explains how Kuehne+Nagel works in these situations by giving some examples.

13:19) He shares how he joined the emergency and relief field to help those who would like to join this field as well.

(17:22) He gives his advice on how to join the Emergency and Relief Logistics.

(20:30) Sara and Cormac conclude this episode by suggesting that we are already in a decade of action, and Cormac emphasises the importance of the expertise of logisticians in keeping our world moving.

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