Logwin has organised an aid shipment to Nepal in May for which employees of Voith GmbH had collected tents, blankets and medicines for people in the quake-hit area.
Logwin managed the logistics and is covering the entire costs of transportation. This aid project is not the first time that the technology group and the logistics service provider have collaborated – the companies have been business partners for many years.
The initiator of the project is Herwig Jantschick, a counselor in the company health management team at Voith in Heidenheim. He has been involved in the charity "Children’s Future Organization" for a long time and regularly collects donations for a children's village that the charity operates in Nepal. When the earthquake caused significant damage in the area around the children's village, he immediately launched an appeal for donations and approached Logwin concerning transportation.
"It went without saying that we would support the project together with our customer," said Werner Sander, Branch Manager at the Logwin Air + Ocean site in Stuttgart. "People in Nepal are more reliant on aid than ever before." Logwin provided 14 x 100 m² awnings since material is also needed for the construction of emergency shelters. "The awnings are intended to give people a temporary roof over their heads," Werner Sander explains.
From Heidenheim to Kathmandu
On 12 May, Logwin collected seven large tents, approximately 300 blankets, medicines and a substance for sterilizing spring water from Voith's location in Heidenheim. The goods were taken to Logwin's warehouse, where employees packed the relief supplies and the weatherproof awnings expertly into boxes and wrapping film. The shipment was then transported by truck to Munich Airport. "It was a special challenge to book freight space at such short notice," said Werner Sander. "A lot of aid shipments are currently being flown to Nepal and capacities are correspondingly limited."
Since there are no direct flights, the consignment was transshipped on a stopover in Bangkok. Onward transportation to Kathmandu was delayed since the airport in the Nepalese capital was now closed due to an aftershock. When the relief supplies arrived on 23 May, volunteers took receipt of the donations and distributed them locally.
