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I can only find this article in danish so far... Therefor I?ve used Google to translate it directly into english.... Hoping it will be understandable to you guys.... hoping it will not contain too many faults....
Rgds
Kent
Philippines is now using the AP Moller -Maersk, providing ships and knowledge available to the UN and aid agencies are struggling to help speed in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan . Maersk will in particular also reefers to relief workers.
Maersk help typhoon victims in the Philippines
" Among other things they want to know how they can get local trucks and what stores they can keep relief in. We also set our refrigerated containers available so that they can store their stuff in the fridge . , Says Senior Consultant at AP Moller - Maersk's CSR department, Jens Munch Lund- Nielsen DR .
According to Jens Munch Lund -Nielsen , AP Moller-Maersk got a list from the UN of things you lack , in order to help the thousands of homeless Filipinos by the typhoon . There is first and foremost to make contact with local carriers and boaters who can help , but there may also be a need for one of Maersk's ships.
"We have ships in the area , and there is a local ship, but it depends on what condition the ports have and the ship could possibly get into ," says Jens Munch Lund -Nielsen.
Help is part of an international collaboration between the United Nations World Food Programme and the companies UPS, TNT , Agility and AP Moller-Maersk . Cooperation shall ensure among other things that the UN get free help and advice at least six weeks.
Maersk has also sent the head of their maritime section of the country to help the approximately 3,500 Maersk employees who live in the Philippines. Approximately 2,000 stayed in the country on leave when the typhoon hit , many in the worst hit areas .
"We have lots of Filipino seafarers sailing on our ships and a large part of them is the home on leave . And if they are not home , they have families at home, and many of them are in vulnerable areas , "says CEO of Maersk, Nils Smedegaard, to DR .
Right now the big ufordring to find the many employees because many communication lines are destroyed. Nils Smedegaard do not currently know how many Filipino employees who are injured during typhoon
I can only find this article in danish so far... Therefor I?ve used Google to translate it directly into english.... Hoping it will be understandable to you guys.... hoping it will not contain too many faults....
Rgds
Kent
Philippines is now using the AP Moller -Maersk, providing ships and knowledge available to the UN and aid agencies are struggling to help speed in the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan . Maersk will in particular also reefers to relief workers.
Maersk help typhoon victims in the Philippines
" Among other things they want to know how they can get local trucks and what stores they can keep relief in. We also set our refrigerated containers available so that they can store their stuff in the fridge . , Says Senior Consultant at AP Moller - Maersk's CSR department, Jens Munch Lund- Nielsen DR .
According to Jens Munch Lund -Nielsen , AP Moller-Maersk got a list from the UN of things you lack , in order to help the thousands of homeless Filipinos by the typhoon . There is first and foremost to make contact with local carriers and boaters who can help , but there may also be a need for one of Maersk's ships.
"We have ships in the area , and there is a local ship, but it depends on what condition the ports have and the ship could possibly get into ," says Jens Munch Lund -Nielsen.
Help is part of an international collaboration between the United Nations World Food Programme and the companies UPS, TNT , Agility and AP Moller-Maersk . Cooperation shall ensure among other things that the UN get free help and advice at least six weeks.
Maersk has also sent the head of their maritime section of the country to help the approximately 3,500 Maersk employees who live in the Philippines. Approximately 2,000 stayed in the country on leave when the typhoon hit , many in the worst hit areas .
"We have lots of Filipino seafarers sailing on our ships and a large part of them is the home on leave . And if they are not home , they have families at home, and many of them are in vulnerable areas , "says CEO of Maersk, Nils Smedegaard, to DR .
Right now the big ufordring to find the many employees because many communication lines are destroyed. Nils Smedegaard do not currently know how many Filipino employees who are injured during typhoon