How Does the Ukranian Crisis Impact Flexport?

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Flexport dot org utilizes the corps flexport products to be able to execute this humanitarian transfer of goods and information. All disaster relief shipments are cabi neutral, meaning flexport is covering the s compensating for the emissions that are related to those shipments. We know that the emissions and the transportation sectors as to rising. It's contributing to climate change. And so we have to make sure that we address this problem. Is one of the reasons why weare sending planes to that region as caniv.

“My big call to action would be to support existing organizations,” says Susy Schöneberg, the founder and head of Flexport.org, the nonprofit arm of the logistics firm Flexport. Schöneberg and her team are organizing complex shipments of relief goods to Ukrainian refugee sites across Eastern Europe; she breaks down how her organization has been safely managing the flow of goods toward displaced refugees and the best way you can get involved — as a citizen or company. She leaves us with a lesson that applies to any crisis: joining together can produce far better results than trying to do it alone.

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