Cargo Planes Bring In Supplies; Distribution Difficult
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Relief supplies were arriving in south Asia Wednesday, but getting them where they&#39;re needed the most is proving to be a challenge.
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The massive relief operation continues to be hampered by insufficient coordination nearly a month after the tragedy.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq is suffering a shortage of state-supplied wheat, sugar, and rice because of logistics and security problems, officials and traders said yesterday.
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At the Indonesian military's primary airfield here, cartons of instant noodles, bottled water and medicine were stacked high inside a hangar Wednesday, awaiting delivery to camps filled with desperate tsunami victims. Two Australian military transport planes landed with more water, military rations and medicine, adding to a mountain of assistance marshaled at the base.
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Aid workers cleared landing strips in  Asia's flooded tsunami-hit regions to start flying food, clean  water and medical staff to hungry and injured survivors, but  the global relief operation continued to struggle on Tuesday.
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Corporate donations often rise to the occasion, but a lack of coordination hinders relief.
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Loaded cargo ships carrying imported goods are anchored off the coast of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., on Oct. 11 waiting for the opportunity to be off-loaded at the docks.
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Trucks carrying freight into the United States must describe their cargo in advance in electronic messages to customs officials beginning in November, the Homeland Security Department said. Truck companies have three separate deadlines -- Nov. 15, Dec.15 ...
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WASHINGTON  - The skies over Asia are being darkened these days by an abundance of relief-bearing cargo planes, reflecting the huge outpouring of international sympathy and support in response to the tsunami crisis.
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Relief supplies are reaching Port-au-Prince but are slow to reach hardest-hit Gonaives. A man tries to hang on to a sack of rice he apparently swiped from a truck near Gonaives.
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A multinational force of aid workers,  military aircraft and ships descended on Asia as global tsunami  relief pledges topped $1.36 billion, but the hundreds of tons  of aid created a logistical nightmare.
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TORONTO (CP) - Two more planeloads of relief supplies were heading Tuesday from Canada to tsunami-stricken Indonesia to deliver more than 120,000 kilograms of desperately needed goods such as food, blankets and medical supplies to the survivors of the calamity that has claimed some 140,000 lives.
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Aid trucks loaded with food, medicines  and body bags rolled into tsunami-hit areas across Asia and  aircraft dropped supplies to cut-off villages as a huge relief  operation finally swung into gear Friday.
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THE REGION The Army passed over Raytheon Co. and awarded a $2.04 billion contract to rival L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, of Greenville, Texas, to supply up to 78 cargo planes for the Army and the Air Force. The contract is the first stage in a program that eventually could be worth up to $6 billion to the prime contractor, L-3 ...
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - An army of aid workers  raced on Tuesday to supply food and water to millions of  tsunami victims, and salvage crews unblocked the runway at an  Indonesian airport serving as a key hub for relief shipments.
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By Carol Gentry, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 13--TAMPA -- Every few days, a Federal Express truck pulls into the loading dock at Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute with another delivery of tumor tissues, snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in Ziploc bags.
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Aid began trickling through to survivors across the earthquake and tsunami-battered Indian Ocean Friday, but tons of emergency supplies continued to pile up at some overstretched airports.