Emergency and Disaster Relief Logistics, 24/7

Depth Logistics proudly provides domestic and international emergency and disaster relief logistics services to Australia’s leading organisations, first responders and aid agencies, 24 hours a day. We work from our Depth Defence Logistics Centres (2DLCs) in Brisbane and Darwin and our Townsville depot, all strategically located close to airports, ports and defence bases, and we can move relief supplies by road, air or sea. In Darwin, our landing craft can deliver to remote beaches where there is no infrastructure or where roads and rail are cut off.

Ready to respond to any crisis

Because we support defence organisations, our team is used to responding rapidly to logistics needs by any mode of transport. We respond 24/7 to any crisis. We can deploy team members and logistics resources into places where the crisis has damaged or cut off infrastructure. Our remote defence logistics capability covers base and humanitarian relief support that can mobilise rapidly, 24/7.

What we can provide in an emergency

• Road transport from small secure parcels to heavy equipment, using our own road transport and heavy haulage fleet
• Air freight and defence air charter flights
• Littoral sea transport by landing craft from Darwin
• Moving relief personnel together with their cargo (human logistics)
• Warehousing, materials handling equipment and cargo staging at our 2DLCs
• Dangerous goods transport: we handle all nine dangerous goods classes by road, sea and air
• Customs and quarantine clearance for international relief cargo

Emergency logistics in Brisbane

Our Brisbane 2DLC at 8 Culya St, Pinkenba QLD 4008 is in the Brisbane Airport precinct and less than 1 km from the Pinkenba wharves. It has secure warehousing, forklifts from 2.5t to 16t, air cargo handling, lighting for 24-hour operations and our road freight fleet on site.

Emergency logistics in Darwin

Our Darwin 2DLC at 31 Muramats Rd, East Arm NT 0822 is 4 km from the Darwin Port gate. It has a 50,000 sqm laydown area, a Kalmar RT240 reach stacker, road train access and a landing craft pocket with a 53 m wide LCT and RoRo ramp. Our landing craft, Modifier, can operate in remote areas with little or no berth infrastructure, which makes it suited to delivering relief supplies to remote coastal communities.

Emergency logistics in Townsville

Our Townsville depot at 16 Mackley St, Garbutt QLD 4814 is in the Townsville RAAF Base precinct, less than 12 km from the port. It has yard storage, forklift hire, lighting for 24-hour operations, a security-cleared team and our road freight fleet for North Queensland and beyond.

Transparent pricing when time is short

In an emergency there is often no time for normal procurement processes. Our rates and pricing are fully transparent, so you can rely on us not to take advantage of the situation while getting life-saving aid to where it is needed. We are standing by now ready to help!

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