DC Velocity - July 2010

ments, the carriers, the shipper, and the ground force,” says Col. Wolosz. To help smooth the process, SDDC has taken the step of placing liaison officers in consulates and embassies across the NDN.

Mission accomplished

The first shipment to move via one of the northern routes departed in February 2009 and was delivered in May. Based on the success of that venture, the NDN was declared operational in May 2009, less than a year after the project began. As of the end of March 2010, over 10,000 containers had moved through this new set of routes.

The primary user of the NDN,
which is reserved for non-lethal
supplies, is the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). So far, that
agency alone has moved more than 8,000 containers
through the network. “I think it has gone very well,” says Air
Force Col. Deirdre Mahon, the DLA’s division chief for
combatant command support. “Through time, the NDN
has proven to be very reliable. We’ve seen the transit time
continue to decrease and the capacity continue to increase.
It’s doing the job it was intended to do.”
One of those jobs, of course, was to reduce the volume of
freight brought in through Pakistan. And on that count,
the project has been an unqualified success. Today, less
than half of all Afghanistan-
bound freight moves through
Pakistan.

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