Logistics and the nature of disaster recovery planning

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By Gavin van Marle

31/10/2017

The last few months have demonstrated again just how vulnerable many societies are to natural disasters, with North America and the Caribbean hit particularly hard. And notwithstanding the extraordinary analysis of Puerto Rico’s situation by US president Donald Trump, it is clear that the logistics industry is on the front line in dealing with the aftermath of such horrors (natural disasters rather than not Donald Trump…)

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