Evaluating the Applicability of Sea Basing to Support the Preparation for, and Response to, Rapid Onset Disasters

Peter Tatham; Gyongyi Kovacs; Alain Vaillancourt

doi:10.1109/TEM.2015.2502548

Evaluating the Applicability of Sea Basing to Support the Preparation for, and Response to, Rapid Onset Disasters

Peter Tatham, Gyongyi Kovacs, Alain Vaillancourt

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Abstract

Using four case studies of the response of the international community to major rapid onset natural disasters, this paper analyzes the advantages and challenges inherent in the provision of logistics support through the use of a floating warehouse; otherwise known as 'sea basing.' Through a comparison of the costs and benefits of the use of alternative sea-basing models with the actual cost of air transport incurred, this paper demonstrates that the use of sea basing would offer responding agencies significant cost and flexibility benefits, and that the concept has the potential to be extended significantly through the use of a bespoke vessel rather than a standard commercial container ship.

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Original language	English
Article number	7353158
Pages (from-to)	67-77
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management
Volume	63
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2015.2502548
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Cyclone Nargis 2008
disaster relief
humanitarian logistics (HL)
inventory location
Nepal earthquake 2015
Pakistan earthquake 2005
sea basing
typhoon Haiyan 2013

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Strategy and Management
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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