In the partnership Moving the World aims to centralise TNT’s support to WFP, North Star Alliance and Fleet Forum, around projects and specialist assignments that call upon TNT’s core skills and expertise in areas of distribution, supply chain management, process improvement, customers, finance, cost reduction & optimization programmes, engaging employees and environmental issues, to help WFP, North Star Alliance or Fleet Forum to achieve their objectives.
Sharing our expertise
31 August 2012
Laurens Ruster
The knowledge and skills of all TNT employees lies at the hart of the partnership with WFP. Lots of colleagues worked on logistics related projects. Where you one of them or do you have an opion about this? Please tell us all about it. Share your knowledge here on our blog.
Atlanta
15 May 2012
Taco
Several weeks have gone by since my last blog, in the mean time I have made several trips to Atlanta and 1 to Los Angeles in the US. With the project team we have conducted many interviews with the three NGO’s that participate in SUSTAIN GP.
What is SUSTAIN?
13 April 2012
Taco
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As of the beginning of March I am assigned to the SUSTAIN GP Partnership. Normally, specialist assignments are carried out in Africa or other far-away places of this world, this assignment is a bit different. Until now my main tasks have been in the United States and from the head office in Hoofddorp.
The SUSTAIN GP project is a Partnership with a number of NGO’s (Non- Governmental Organisations), Logistics providers and Consultancy firms. This partnership is dedicated to providing a supply chain platform for efficient delivery of humanitarian aid and development support.
It's time to...
14 September 2011
Gmathijs
Finalise my work with WFP Global Humanitarian Services, Wrap-up my open projects and debrief the stakeholders, Clean my desk and hand over the work I’ve done, Check my to-do list for the very last time…
And also to...
Say goodbye and “thanks for everything!” to my colleagues,
Say Tschuss, au revoir, masalaama, adios, arrivederci and e noho rā to my friends,
Pack my bags, return the rental car and my keys to the landlord,
Enjoy my last iftar and shisha…
But also to…
Visions of Armored Vehicles
03 September 2011
emilie voskens
Time’s up; tomorrow I’m heading back to the Netherlands after a fascinating and challenging month of working for the World Food Programme in Cairo. I’m going home with a greatly improved understanding of the UN and the world of humanitarian aid, of logistics and of myself.
Operation on Quicksand
22 August 2011
emilie voskens
‘Planning a logistics operation in a conflict zone is like building a castle on quicksand’ uttered Cluster coordinator Riaz this week, after adjusting his contingency plan for the third time in three days. Who controls what in Libya is on top of everyone’s mind here. Every move the rebels and pro-Ghadafi forces make has a direct impact on the humanitarian operation. And they’ve been moving quite a lot lately.
I am IM
11 August 2011
emilie voskens
This August, I’m working in Cairo, functioning as an Information Management Officer in the Logistics Cluster for Libya. The Logistics Cluster, led by WFP, coordinates logistics support for the humanitarian community in emergencies. It is basically a group of organisations working together to improve the effectiveness of relief response. In every Cluster there’s someone who takes care of information management; keeping track of all actions and situations and feeding them back into the right channels.
Exploring roads in the Gambia
18 March 2009
fspaan
A Logistics Capacity Assessment is a study of a country’s logistics infrastructure. They are designed to obtain information about a country’s or region’s food aid transportation infrastructure.
Two months with the World Food Programme
07 September 2007
Anonymous
Thomas Goossens Thomas Goossens is a 27 year old project engineer working for TNT in Belgium. As part of the Moving the World specialist volunteer programme, he was ‘lent’ to the WFP for two months to help equip its vehicles with GPS tracking systems. With WFP, Thomas traveled to Dubai, Khartoum, Toulouse, and finally to Rome, to the UN agency’s headquarters. During this interview he talks about his experiences within the assignment and his impressions working with WFP. What did your mission involve? TG: I was doing what we call a ‘specialist programme’.
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