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Emblematic Example of Strategic Cross-Sector Partnership: Logistics Emergency Teams

In: Humanitarian Logistics

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  • Alessandra Cozzolino

    (Sapienza Università di Roma)

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Chapter 4 presents en emblematic example of a strategic integrative partnership between humanitarian organizations and logistics companies in disaster relief. Sect. 4.1 describes the Logistics Emergency Teams (LETs) initiative; Sect. 4.2 describes the logistics business partners—Agility, TNT, UPS, and Maersk, all of them leading logistics and transportation companies; Sect. 4.3 describes the logistics humanitarian partner—the United Nations Logistics Cluster (LC), led by the World Food Programme (WFP); and Sect. 4.4 describes a set of relationship guidelines for ruling the LET/LC partnership. The chapter provides the reader with a short case study description of an emblematic partnership between humanitarian organizations and logistics companies in disaster relief, and shows how the cooperation could leverage and match the capacity and resources of the logistics industry with the expertise and the experience of the humanitarian community.

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  • Alessandra Cozzolino, 2012. "Emblematic Example of Strategic Cross-Sector Partnership: Logistics Emergency Teams," SpringerBriefs in Business, in: Humanitarian Logistics, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 39-48, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbrcp:978-3-642-30186-5_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30186-5_4
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