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Humanitarian can be defined as a person who cares and denotes an event involving widespread human suffering, especially requiring the provision of aid on a large scale. Since a humanitarian organization will have to cope with different types of natural disasters or emergencies such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, epidemics, droughts, famines, terrorist attacks and war situations up to a combination of different disasters that can occur simultaneously. However, the humanitarian organization will partner with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), national government involvement, international donors and humanitarian organizations and manage aid to vulnerable beneficiaries in disaster sites around the world by providing aid and financial support. Provision of humanitarian aid known as short-term activities in kind and provide the immediate consequences (emergency) of a disaster. Furthermore, the humanitarian organization faced some significant challenges throughout the operation in planning and quickly responding to problems. Helps the humanitarian organization to provide an accurate assessment regarding the right amount of aid to be delivered to the right destination and to the right people, as well as to use better infrastructure to deliver and receive humanitarian aid. Organizational performance trade-offs in achieving performance objectives by reducing minimizing total costs Association between international service providers sharing physical logistics resources Attracting more donors to support funding, donation of company products - Nestlé, food manufacturers Role of logisticians in humanitarian interventions logistics in adding value to humanitarian organizations Logisticians of Humanitarian logistics can add value to the organization's transportation system.