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Birmingham forwarder delivers for NHS

[ May 6, 2020   //   ]

Birmingham-based International Forwarding is delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) to the West Midlands  from London Luton Airport and Birmingham airports on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. Goods go to an NHS-appointed warehouse in Daventry for distribution to hospitals and other medical facilities.

For the next two weeks, the forwarder will be handling up to two flights a day from Turkey, one into each airport, each carrying up to 300 cubic metres of supplies. Road haulage will also be carried out by IFL’s sister company, RGF Logistics.

Managing director Rob Pike (pictured) said: “We are working every day at the moment to keep supply chains moving for our customers. We’ve had a busy weekend in Luton as the first flights came in carrying tens of thousands of PPE items, mostly aprons and full suits. As the health secretary has said, the logistics of getting this amount of protective equipment to keyworkers in the NHS requires a herculean logistical effort. But we are up for the task.”

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