Award-Winning Compassion
ALAN was pleased to present its 2021 Humanitarian Logistics Awards to 12 highly deserving individuals or organizations at CSCMP EDGE.
Created in 2017, these awards honor individuals and organizations that have demonstrated an ongoing and sustained commitment to helping others in their time of greatest need – and who serve as beacons of hope before, during and after disasters strike.
Please join us in congratulating each of the 2021 winners. And if you know of a particularly deserving recipient for our 2022 awards, please consider nominating them here.
Click Here To View The Previous Years’ Humanitarian Logistics Award Winners

CEVA Logistics –Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For moving multiple shipments of supplies to support Native American tribes and various non-profits throughout the COVID-19 crisis and after the Oregon fires.

Palmer Logistics - Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For providing essential short-term storage of hospital beds on behalf of a medical non-profit and for its ongoing support of USAID.

Core-Mark International – Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For the long-term loan of two freezer tractor- trailers and donating driver resources that enabled the Arkansas Food Bank to distribute two million extra pounds of donated food during COVID-19.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services – Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For its assistance with multiple compassionate moves during 2020 and 2021, including helping ALAN and the Salvation Army distribute meal kits.

American Trucking Associations – Outstanding Contribution To Disaster Relief Award
For deploying two of its image show trucks and drivers to deliver numerous compassionate shipments of food, cleaning supplies, PPE and medical supplies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tucker Company Worldwide – Director’s Partnership Award
For supporting ALAN’s analytical efforts during the pandemic.

Truckstop.com – Director’s Partnership Award
For consistently sharing information about freight marketing activities with members of ALAN’s partner network during various crises.

Dr. José Holguín-Veras of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Research And Academic Contributions Award
For his team’s research on panic buying and other post-disaster behaviors. His team has studied the vast majority of extreme events that have taken place over the last 20 years – often using fieldwork observations that were gathered directly after disasters in order to enhance understanding of the complex behaviors and dynamics that occur after disasters. In the process, it has helped identify ways to enhance disaster resilience and enhanced mathematical models of logistics operations.

Dr. Hossein Zarei of Coventry University – Research And Academic Contributions Award
For his research and efforts to improve the intersection between sustainability and humanitarian logistics. Over the years he has played a pivotal role in identifying green practices in commercial supply chains and demonstrating how they can and should be customized and applied to humanitarian supply chains.

Students and staff from the W.P. Carrey School of Business at Arizona State University, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the University of Wisconsin Madison – Student Engagement Award
For their hard work and support of ALAN’s day-to-day operations over the past 18 months, which were some of the busiest and most work-intensive in ALAN’s history.