DHL Supply Chain helps transform Transaid's logistics

DHL Supply Chain helping to transform Transaid’s logistics

International development organisation Transaid has revealed that expertise, advice and initiatives from logistics specialists DHL Supply Chain have helped to transform its ability to move products and services from suppliers to end-users.

DHL Supply Chain has recently kicked off a new training scheme in Malawi that will run for the next six months and will help employees to work and drive safely. It is part of a now six-year-long affiliation with Transaid, which has seen DHL deliver funding and much-needed resources for its overseas Driver Train Consortium.

“DHL Supply Chain’s proactive commitment over the years has been incredible,” Transaid CEO Gary Forster said. “Chris’ contribution, together with the company’s dedication to supporting our road safety projects, is helping us deliver UK-standard training to even more people. It’s helping us to raise the bar of professional driving in Africa.”

DHL’s Senior Driver Trainer, Chris Brook, is just one of the driving “experts” who has been crucial to the training programme in recent years. While Brook recently returned from his stint in Africa. DHL is planning to send another professional volunteer to Tanzania later this month in order to conduct a fork lift training course.

As part of the project, DHL was also present alongside Transaid at the recent IMHX intralogistics event in the UK to deliver a seminar on the advantages of employee volunteering and training to improve driver safety.

DHL’s Supply Chain Chief Development Officer, Graham Inglis, added: “The work we do with Transaid, which is a brilliant organisation, is part of a wider commitment to utilising the skills within our business for the benefit of others.

“As part of our Living Responsibility commitment, we have streams of voluntary activity, including Go Help, in which we work with the UN on international logistics challenges, and Go Teach, which sees our employees volunteer to provide education for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.”