ASEAN-UN Cooperation: Inaugural Relief Flight from UN Staging Area, Don Mueang International Airport, Thailand
CYCLONE NARGIS: Air operations from UNHRD Network in favour of Myanmar. For more information on Logistics activities/Logistics Cluster click on http://www.logcluster.org/mm08a/
The Thailand Prime Minister, The United Nations Secretary General and the Secretary General of ASEAN, officially inaugurated on the 24th May 2008, the UN staging area set-up by WFP in Don Muang Airport of Bangkok. The purpose of UN Staging Area is to ensure that relief cargo deliveries to support the Cyclone Victims in Myanmar is stream-lined and coordinated through 1) the consolidation and prioritization of cargo by need prior to air-lifting, 2) to ensure capacities at the receiving airport in Yangon is not over-stretched 3) to ensure speedy deliveries to the affected populations.
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CHINA EARTHQUAKE: NEW HUMANITARIAN FLIGHT FROM HRD BRINDISI
The Brindisi HRD organized a joint airlift to China on behalf of the Irish Government and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - OCHA. On board of the A300,  30 Mtons of cargo composed of stretchers, tents and blankets, for a total value of approximately USD 274,000. The aircraft left Brindisi today, in the morning, and it is expected to land in Chengdu on the same day, in the evening, after a technical stop in Karachi
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