Carl
Schelfhaut,
Head
of
the
GoHelp
Program
for
Asia
Pacific,
DHL
Group
and
Lee
Yam
Ming,
the
Executive
Director
of
the
AHA
Centre
signing
the
MOI
in
Singapore
Signed
initially
in
2019,
the
renewed
MOI
will
extend
the
collaboration
for
another
five
years.
As
part
of
the
MOI,
DHL
Group’s
Disaster
Response
Team
(DRT)
will
assist
the
AHA
Centre
during
disasters
and
be
primarily
responsible
for
airport
ground
handling
of
humanitarian
relief
cargo
at
airports
or
an
alternative
point
of
entry
(except
seaports).
DHL’s Disaster Response Team will handle, sort, inventorize, and store incoming relief cargo at an airport or other point of entry except for seaports. Other than managing airside or landside relief cargo operations, DRT will also help with customs processes if requested by the AHA Centre or ASEAN Member States.
“A successful DRT deployment requires strong public-private partnerships and we are proud to continue our work with AHA Centre to help them achieve the One ASEAN, One Response vision. According to the World Meteorological Organization, Asia was the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023.
This is why it is even more important now that we work with organizations like AHA Centre to assist disaster-affected areas in Southeast Asia quickly,” said Carl Schelfhaut, Head of the GoHelp Program for Asia Pacific, DHL Group.
The DRTs are part of DHL Group’s GoHelp disaster management program, which it has operated in partnership with the United Nations (UN) since 2005. Through this partnership, the Group provides the UN and national disaster management agencies with pro bono access to its core logistics expertise, and the logistics skills of specially trained employee volunteers worldwide who can deploy within 72 hours after a natural disaster.
As one of the AHA Centre’s longstanding partners, DHL has played a pivotal role in ensuring efficient logistics support during emergency response. “Through this continued collaboration, the AHA Centre and DHL have consistently demonstrated their shared commitment to building a more disaster-resilient region,” said Lee Yam Ming, the Executive Director of the AHA Centre. The most recent emergency response demonstrated collaboration between the AHA Centre and DHL was the mobilization of ASEAN relief items during Tropical Cyclone Yagi in October.
Mr. Lee highlighted that this partnership will further enhance disaster responses, particularly during emergencies, by facilitating the swift deployment of relief items from the regional warehouses to the affected communities and the overall effectiveness of relief operations.
DHL Group’s DRTs are comprised of specially trained volunteer employees from across the Group’s business units, including DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding, DHL Supply Chain and DHL eCommerce. The teams are located in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe Middle East and Africa, covering all disaster-prone countries.
Since 2005, multiple DRT deployments have taken place in Southeast Asia, involving more than 120 volunteers in Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines.
In addition to the DRT deployments, the Group’s Get Airports Ready for Disaster initiative – also part of the GoHelp program – trains airport management in high-risk regions to be better prepared should disaster strike.
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