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UPS and TNT are providing the World Food Programme (WFP) with free warehousing space to help boost its Humanitarian Response Depots in both Ghana and Panama. The depots will stock vital supplies such as high-energy biscuits, medicines and rapid-response  equipment for emergency operations.

WFP director Amer Daoudi says that thanks to the logistics companies' generous contribution, it will be able to react more quickly to urgent needs in all regions, and therefore save lives. "When WFP opened the Humanitarian Response Depots in Ghana and Panama, our corporate partner, TNT, offered its hospitality for the initial facility in Accra, then brought UPS on board for the second, in Panama," said Daoudi.

"The Ghana facility dispatches critical food and non-food items to life-saving humanitarian operations in countries such as the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso and Chad. The Panama depot has provided relief supplies to Peru and Bolivia in the aftermath of the earthquake in August, and to Nicaragua in response to Hurricane Felix." TNT and UPS were unable to comment as CM went to press.