Julia C. Bendul, Georgiana Ciobotaru

(Jacobs University Bremen, Germany)

 

 

Abstract: Humanitarian logistics is a complex environment which needs a better management of the relief operations and encounters an additional challenge — the limited collaboration among humanitarian organizations. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the possibility of transferring the concept of freight villages to the humanitarian logistics environment and to examine its effect on the performance of disaster relief operations. The conducted SWOT analysis and case study (on the 2010 Haiti Earthquake) showed that humanitarian freight villages would improve the disaster relief operations in different areas: collaboration among humanitarian organizations, preparedness, benefits for small and medium sized humanitarian organizations and the performance of emergency response.

 

 

Key words: disaster relief operations; commercial freight village; humanitarian supply chain; case study;

SWOT analysis

 

JEL code: O1