Priority Worldwide Assists NGO Partners in Hurricane Beryl Response

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Hurricane Beryl was an intense Category 5 hurricane, the earliest Cat-5 hurricane ever recorded in the Caribbean region. It caused widespread devastation across islands in the SE Caribbean including Grenada, Barbados, St Vincent & Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica.

Our Emergency Response team closely followed the storm and the impacts on logistics infrastructure in the islands. Shelter and medical teams were imperative and there was widespread damage to airports/ports in Grenada & St Vincent along with the smaller islands. Airports & ports were inaccessible for several days in some areas. Our team provided frequent SITREP and blog reports to NGO partners to help them with formatting their plans for delivering aid to the islands.

During July & August, Priority Worldwide coordinated 3 strategic air charters for key NGO partners in USA, Canada and Panama to Grenada, St Vincent and Jamaica, delivering over 100T of aid by A321F and B767F aircraft types. We also arranged a further 50Tons of commercial and donated airlift operations from Barbados, Miami, New York, Toronto and London to the islands. Our global ER team worked closely with our exports teams in USA, Canada and our global ops centers in Bosnia & UAE.

Stuart Smith, Director Emergency Response commented:

What made this response complex was the spread of infrastructure damage over so many smaller islands and the intensity of the damage received. Some of these islands already have quite little air supply capacity and rely on schooner vessels connecting with larger regional ports, and the airport infrastructure is not great in places. Our partners made a very efficient job of consolidating loads via strategic hubs via a combination of air charter and commercial indirect services, and in some cases the aid island-hopped for the final leg. We had some late nights with some of these flights but the cause is always worth it.

Priority Worldwide Assists NGO Partners in Hurricane Beryl Response

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