Case study

LOGSO

Solidarity-Based Logistics — Regional Resilience in the Face of Systemic Crises.

The project

Duration: Jan. 2024 – Dec. 2025.

The contemporary world is facing a succession of systemic crises—natural disasters, pandemics, armed conflicts, geopolitical tensions, and climate change—whose frequency and interconnection are redefining global logistical balances. Current logistics systems, designed according to centralized, linear, and industrial models focused on efficiency, are reaching their limits in the face of these unforeseen, localized, and evolving contexts.

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerability of globalized supply chains and, at the same time, given rise to a new model of logistics that is local, community-based, agile, and rooted in solidarity. These informal dynamics have demonstrated the value of an alternative logistics system—one rooted in local realities and capable of connecting untapped resources with priority needs.

The LOGSO project brings together local governments, organizations, businesses, and citizens around a collaborative effort aimed at designing a resilient, agile, and replicable logistics model— at the intersection of humanitarian aid, crisis logistics, the social and solidarity economy, and sustainable development.

The result

The theoretical foundation draws on theSupply Chain Risk Management(SCRM) framework, which is structured around three levels of action—strategic (risk mitigation), tactical (set-up), and operational (recovery)—and is supplemented by two in-depth case studies of recent disasters:

Case Study · Beirut 2020

Analysis of the Beirut Port Explosions (August 4, 2020) — 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate, 200 deaths, $4 billion in damage — to model the recovery of logistics operations following an industrial disaster.

Case Study · Ukraine

Analysis of Logistical Disruptions Caused by the War in Ukraine — Impacts on Grain Corridors, Energy Routes, and European Supply Chains.

Three-level SCRM cycle

A conceptual framework linking risk mitigation (strategic), set-up (tactical), and recovery (operational) — adapted from Ivanov et al. (2017) and Kurniawan et al. (2017) for major crisis contexts.

Types of Disasters

The project identifies and distinguishes four types of major disruptions to the supply chain—natural disasters, pandemics, armed conflicts, and industrial disasters—each of which requires a different logistics recovery strategy.

The project positions solidarity-based logistics not as a substitute for existing systems, but as their operational complement —a pillar of regional transformation and collective resilience in the face of growing uncertainty.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS

SCRM

(Supply Chain Risk Management)

Ivanov Cycle

(Mitigation, Setup, Recovery)

Systematic Literature

(Review Methodology)

Case Study Method

(Qualitative Study)

EMPIRICAL CASES

Port of Beirut

(August 4, 2020)

War in Ukraine

(Logistics corridors)