Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) has partnered with large humanitarian aid organisations to set up critical aid missions funded by the forwarder’s 10m Swiss francs donation for emergency aid to Ukraine.
The largest charter organised so far by K+N’s Emergency and Relief Logistics team took off in Sharjah (UAE) on March 29.
A Ukrainian Antonov An-124 carried 111 tons of aid sourced from UNICEF’s warehouse in Dubai and landed in Poland the same evening. The goods will then be trucked to Ukraine.
Kuehne+Nagel International CEO Dr. Detlef Trefzger said: “Thanks to our long-standing, trusted partnership with UNICEF, we were able to very quickly set up a critical aid campaign for Ukraine in a jointly manner.
“It is symbolic in itself that today we can make one of the largest deliveries of aid to Ukraine with a Ukrainian Antonov airplane. I am grateful to our partners, stakeholders and all our Kuehne+Nagel colleagues who support our pledge to the Ukrainian people.”
