Their six-month-long mission has been to train and advise Filipino troops, and help with surveillance, equipment, engineering and logistics.

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Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich said a medical official, a nutritional medic, a psychologist and an engineering expert in logistics from NASA will stay at the mine from Wednesday through Friday to help.

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If you're willing to move on short notice and have technical skills in engineering, procurement or logistics, consider relief work, Siegel suggests.

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The unit's expertise would include communications, logistics, medicine and engineering.

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Schneider looked to one of the leading practitioners of logistics simulation, Warren Powell, a professor of operations research and financial engineering at Princeton University.

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In addition to drilling services, Transocean also provides provides well and logistics services through its integrated services division and also turnkey drilling solutions, planning, engineering and management services and competes with companies like Noble Corp and Diamond Offshore Drilling.

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