Implementation and practice of humanitarian logistics in Hong Kong

“Precaution better than cures” is always true to avoid unexpected events and diseases. Humanitarian logistics become more vital for community to quick response to the emergency of unexpected incidents as well as natural disaster, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and pandemic. The recent COVID-19 outbreak shows that a success and reliable humanitarian logistics operation and practices are necessary to avoid duplicated efforts, logistics chaos and on-going crisis (i.e. famine, droughts, poverty, war and refugee crises.) In this study, it reveals that collaboration and outsourcing; information and IT system as well as strategic partnership are major factors for success implementation of humanitarian logistics in Hong Kong. Moreover, a comprehensive and holistic policy, operation flow and guideline are needed to minimize the negative impact. The major limitation of this study is mainly relying on secondary data gathering and qualitative research. An empirical analysis and case studies are recommended to conduct research in next stage. Further research is needed to investigate the operation flow and practices of humanitarian logistics with different stakeholders in the field.