Atlas Air provides pro-bono flights for Project Airbridge.
Gov. Cuomo fights for
supplies
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FEMA Project AirBridge
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Medical supplies expedited to US
The Federal Emergency
Management
Agency launched Project
AirBridge on March
29 to speed the delivery
of much-needed medical
equipment and supplies
from overseas manufacturers.
The program
partners with U.S. medical
supply distributors
to airlift personal protective equipment
from foreign factories. A key
example of this partnership in action
is Project AirBridge. The air
bridge was created to reduce the
time it takes for U.S. medical supply
distributors to receive personal
protective equipment and other
critical supplies into the country
for their respective customers.
FEMA covers the cost to fl y supplies
into the U.S. from overseas
factories, reducing shipment time
from weeks to days.
Half of the shipments are sold
to COVID-19 hotspots identifi ed
by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention; the other half
goes to the distributors’ customers.
FEMA says that Project AirBridge
reduced shipment time from weeks
to days and is expected to undertake
about 65 fl ights over the next
30 days.
JFK Airport has supported this
effort with important shipments of
Covid-19 test kits, Russian ventilators
and imported masks, gowns
and related supplies for the NYS
Emergency Services and the NYU
Langone Medical Center. Companies
such as Lufthansa cargo,
Worldwide Flight Services have
served as cargo and ground handling
for many of the AirBridge
fl ights.
Atlas Air and Antonov aircraft
have brought tons of supplies from
overseas, primarily China, for distribution
in the USA.
Overseas fl ights arrive at operational
hub airports for distribution
to hotspots and nationwide locations
through regular
supply chains. Flight arrivals
do not mean supplies
will be distributed
in the operational hub locations.
Per agreements
with distributors, 50 percent
of supplies on each
plane are for customers
within the hotspot areas
with most critical
needs. The remaining 50 percent is
fed into distributors’ normal supply
chain to their customers in other
areas nationwide. HHS and FEMA
determine hotspot areas based on
CDC data.
The Supply Chain Task Force
continues to execute a strategy
maximizing the availability of
critical protective and lifesaving
resources through FEMA for a
whole-of-America response. Efforts
to date have focused on reducing
the medical supply chain capacity
gap to both satisfy and relieve demand
pressure on medical supply
capacity. The task force is applying
a four-prong approach of Preservation,
Acceleration, Expansion and
Allocation to rapidly increase supply
today and expand domestic production
of critical resources to increase
supply long-term.
The Supply Chain Task Force
is working with the major commercial
distributors to facilitate
the rapid distribution of critical
resources in short supply to locations
where they are needed most.
This partnership enables FEMA
and its federal partners to take
a whole-of-America approach to
combatting COVID-19. The task
force is providing distributors
with up-to-date information on the
locations across the country hardest
hit by COVID-19 or in most need
of resources now and in the future.
The distributors have agreed to focus
portions of their distributions
on these areas in order to alleviate
the suffering of the American
people.
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