Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, June 04, 2021. On May 30, Caribbean Airlines Cargo delivered 55,200 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Jamaica. The life-saving shipment was carried through a scheduled all-cargo flight, originating in Miami.
Over the past two months, the carrier has shipped a significant number of vaccines to Guyana, Barbados, Dominica, and Trinidad. These shipments included temperature-sensitive vaccines such as AstraZeneca and Sinopharm, transported via the airline’s gateways in Toronto and Miami.
“Caribbean Airlines salutes health care professionals for their tireless work, rolling out inoculation programmes while meeting the heightened demand of the health care system. We are also grateful to each and every frontline worker for their essential service and are humbled to contribute to Covid-19 recovery efforts,” said Marklan Moseley, General Manager – Cargo and New Business, Caribbean Airlines.
The carrier recently expanded its weekly all-cargo service in Jamaica, increasing capacity to serve rising demand in the country. Caribbean Airlines Cargo also currently provides cargo services to and from Guyana, Trinidad, Barbados, New York, Antigua, and the Bahamas and can facilitate transport to several other destinations through its cargo charter service.
India COVID relief effort launched by SecurFoundation
Philanthropy solicits donations to send 68 million US-located masks to fight the spread of COVID-19 on the Indian subcontinent
Steve Russell, Chief Executive Officer, SecurCapital
SecurFoundation, the philanthropic arm of logistics, M&A, and financial services firm SecurCapital Corp, has launched a COVID Relief Effort to raise money and send 68 million masks to the Indian subcontinent to help doctors and stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our goal is to support prevention with a desperately needed supply of PPE products as well as support equipment focused on treatment,” shares Steve Russell, SecurCapital Corp Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
With 54 million BYD surgical and 14 million N95 NIOSH-approved respirator masks in their temperature-controlled, pharmaceutical-grade warehouses in the Dallas / Ft. Worth, Texas area, SecurFoundation has unveiled the donation platform Masks4India.org to send these urgently-needed lifesaving supplies to India and throughout the region. Individuals and companies can make a donation that will fund and ship anywhere from a single case to an entire airline container.
Neel Gonuguntla, President of the US-India Chamber of Commerce Foundation (USICOC), welcomes their efforts. “We are grateful for the support BIG Logistics extended to the USICOC Foundation to help ship over 100 oxygen concentrators to Bangalore to address COVID needs on the ground. PPE including masks is the need of the hour now as India seeks to bring down the case counts and prevent a third wave of the pandemic.”
The masks are stored in the warehouses of SecurCapital Corp portfolio company BIG Logistics. BIG recently collaborated with the US-India Chamber of Commerce Foundation on a donation of oxygen concentrators shipped to Hyderabad for use in local hospitals. The immediate need for masks, however, is the protective step that slows the increasing number of infections and fatalities, an urgent point underscored by this effort.
BIG Logistics CEO Vinod Baliga initiated the outreach efforts to the Indian business community in Dallas / Ft. Worth.
“SecurCapital and BIG are collaborating with the US-India Chamber of Commerce Foundation and US-Nepal Chamber of Commerce and other business and charitable Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and commercial airlines supporting the relief effort to identify the locations with the greatest need.”
Russell, who served as CEO, Salesforce.comAsia, Australia & India, has many friends and professional colleagues in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka whose lives and families are directly being impacted by the pandemic. SecurFoundation’s 1 + 1 + 1 philanthropy model was launched in 2017 emulating that of the SalesForce Foundation where companies donate 1% of equity, 1% of products, and 1% of employee time and profits to charitable causes.
