Lufthansa Cargo transports relief supplies for quake victims in Haiti, MD-11 freighter airlifts food and technical equipment to Santo Domingo
Vrsta objave: Humanitarna akcija, donacija i sponzorstvo
Lufthansa is supporting the international emergency operations in aid of the earthquake victims in Haiti. Next Monday, Lufthansa Cargo will be despatching an MD-11 freighter with about 80 tonnes of relief supplies on board from Frankfurt bound for the Greater Antilles. The shipment consists largely of food, medicaments and technical equipment.
Since Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti is restricted exclusively to military aircraft, the relief flight will land in Santo Domingo, the Capital of the Dominican Republic. From there, the emergency aid will be trucked by road to Haiti on a journey lasting around 15 hours. Further cargo flights to Santo Domingo are currently under consideration. Additionally, Lufthansa is transporting further aid supplies, especially food, to Miami in the belly holds of passenger aircraft. These are being shipped to Port-au-Prince on the US military airlift.
"Lufthansa promptly contacted the crisis staff of the Federal government last week to offer its support," said the Chairman of the Lufthansa Group, Wolfgang Mayrhuber. "As a globally active Group, we feel duty-bound to help relieve the immeasurable suffering of the victims in Haiti".
HelpAlliance, the voluntary aid organisation set up by Lufthansa staff in 1999, has opened an
account at the Frankfurter Sparkasse 1822, to which donations for the people in Haiti can be sent (Account - No. 1245639577, Sort code - 500 502 01, Ref: "Haiti"). As with the tsunami in Southeast Asia, HelpAlliance will give every backing to sustainable measures in support of the Haiti earthquake victims and the Country's reconstruction. In those efforts, it will work together in proven cooperation with the Catholic religious order, the Salesians of Don Bosco, which operates a worldwide network and which has been active in Haiti for several decades
LLufthansa Cargo AG
Lufthansa Cargo ranks among the world's leading cargo carriers. In the 2008 financial year, the airline transported around 1.7 million tonnes of freight and mail and clocked up 8.3 billion revenue tonne-kilometres. The Company currently employs about 4,600 people, worldwide. Lufthansa Cargo focuses on the airport-to-airport business. The cargo carrier serves some 300 destinations in 90 countries with its own fleet of freighters, the belly capacities of
Lufthansa's passenger aircraft and an extensive road services network. The bulk of the cargo business is routed through Frankfurt Airport. Lufthansa Cargo is a wholly-owned Lufthansa subsidiary. In the 2008 financial year, it posted revenues totalling 2.9 billion euros.
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