Global Rescue security teams have provided urgent aid to clients in Northern Japan whose supplies were nearly exhausted in the aftermath of last week’s tsunami.

Teams transported food, water, fuel and other basic necessities to employees and their families living in and around Sendai, including medicines for the ill, and essential business equipment to a client who was unable to access the company’s offices. The teams were required to take alternate routes due to closed highways and destroyed infrastructure.

Global Rescue continues to oversee the safety of its clients throughout Japan and is monitoring reports of nuclear radiation levels in urban areas that could rise depending on meteorological conditions. The company’s on-site crisis response professionals are providing security advice on how to shelter-in-place, have created command structures in the event of an emergency and have established evacuation contingency plans involving both land and air assets which would be implemented should there be indications that radiation in those areas is approaching harmful levels.

Three corporations with an active presence in Japan have retained Global Rescue’s services for more than 200 employees.