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DHL has deployed a team of logistics experts from its Middle East Disaster Response Team (DRT) to manage a temporary warehouse at Islamabad International Airport.
The company will provide its services pro bono in close co-operation with the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Incoming supplies from the UN World Food Programme as well as contributions from governments arriving through the airport will be handled by the team via three to five relief flights per day.
Donations amounting to around $300,000 have poured in from the DHL offices worldwide including Bahrain, Pakistan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan and the company's corporate head office in Bonn, Germany. Humanitarian aid including milk powder, clothes, canned food and medical supplies has also been sent to aid flood victims.
Twenty-five volunteers from DHL's DRT Middle East and Asia Pacific office are expected to be deployed on the ground in Pakistan for up to three weeks to help unload and palletise goods.
