TNT Express is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its partnership with the United Nations WorldFood Programme (WFP) with UPS applauding the cooperation due to its own involvement through a
separate partnership.Under the partnership, WFP has been providing food aid to 90 million people a year with the helpof TNT’s logistics expertise. TNT is involved in many ways, providing, for example,hands-on-support when emergencies strike.
In 2011, for instance, TNT Express delivered 68,000 blankets to Japanese people displaced by thetsunami and nuclear emergency. In the same year, the company airlifted 50 tons of food to Nairobifor distribution in neighbouring Somalia. Other ways of support include knowledge transfer,awareness campaigns, and fundraising projects, such as the annual “Walk the World” charity walkthat allowed WFP to provide school meals to 120,000 children over the past ten years.
In January 2005, UPS joined TNT to collaborate on providing humanitarian logistics expertise tothe World Food Programme, following the Southeast Asian tsunami. This cooperation has grown into astrong partnership through the development of the Logistics Emergency Team (LET) initiative, UPSsaid.
“LET companies, including TNT, UPS, Agility and Maersk, work together to help victims ofnatural disasters, realising that sharing their logistics knowledge and providing customs,warehousing and transportation capacity is an impactful way to assist the WFP with theirhumanitarian response efforts,” UPS International president, Dan Brutto, explained.
“As part of the Logistics Emergency Team, UPS and TNT have assisted with more than a dozenurgent response missions. For example, in February 2010, following the devastating Haitiearthquake, TNT and UPS worked together to organise airlift of 100 metric tons of food into Miami,Florida. TNT provided the aircraft and UPS received and stored the food until it was ready fordelivery to Haiti earthquake victims and then worked side by side as part of the WFP support team.UPS and TNT have collaborated to assist starving children in the Horn of Africa, assisted withdisaster relief to Malian refugees and natural disaster preparedness in Nigeria and Turkey,” headded.
