The Need

In places with undeveloped, limited, or damaged infrastructure, time-critical transportation of cargo can be extremely difficult, risky, expensive, and slow.  Today’s logistics offerings don’t have cost effective means to solve this problem.

Typical Areas of Need

 

DEVELOPING WORLD LOGISTICS

CHALLENGES

  • Many roads are often impassable

  • Access to logistics services is tenuous for many villages

  • Transportation costs are a disproportionate percent of overall costs when compared to developed regions

  • Enormous capital expenditures and time necessary to provide suitable ground infrastructure

TYPICAL MISSION

Delivery of goods to communities in the developing world

 
 

MILITARY & DEFENSE

CHALLENGES

  • Ground transportation often impractical / risky to forward operating areas

  • Helicopter deliveries costly and vulnerable in conflict-affected areas

  • Limited by equipment and pilot availability

  • Often requires hub and spoke staging operations

TYPICAL MISSION

Special Ops resupply

MEDICAL & HUMANITARIAN

CHALLENGES

  • Road deliveries are slow and often impossible

  • Helicopters expensive and staff and fuel intensive

  • Hub and spoke distribution often results in inventory imbalances

TYPICAL MISSION

Delivery of water, tents, medicines, building materials