With Typhoon "Ruby" threatening a huge part of the
country, the Philippine Navy (PN) has activated its action plan for the
impending storm.
This includes the following steps:
-Preparation and reprovisioning of all of its floating
assets which took shelter so that it can be immediately deployed for rescue
missions after the onslaught of the storm;
-Inter-agency coordination for the transport of relief
items;
-Organization of naval task groups to support disaster
response relief operations in most affected areas;
-Setting up of follow-on forces;
-Activation of Naval Task Group "Ruby" composed of
naval task units; each for sealift, search-and-rescue, retrieval and relief,
engineering, support and other logistics need;
-Alerted 476 sealift vessels located in different parts of
the country for deployment in affected areas;
-Activation of multi-national coordinating center for aid
coming from foreign military vessels;
-Prepositioning of relief items at BNS Gym;
-Coordination with different shipping lines to assist in
relief and equipment transport.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=713331
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