CORONAVIRUS & LOGISTICS
GOING THE EXTRA MILE AGAINST CORONAVIRUS
Editor Rachel Tucker spoke to XPO Logistics about the work they are doing to help combat Covid-19
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PO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: XPO) is a top ten global logistics provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. The company operates as a highly integrated network of people, technology and physical assets in 30 countries, with 1,504 locations and approximately 100,000 employees. XPO uses its network to help more than 50,000 customers manage their goods most efficiently throughout their supply chains. The company’s corporate headquarters are in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, and its European headquarters are in Lyon, France. XPO conducts the majority of its European operations through its subsidiary, XPO Logistics Europe, which trades under the stock symbol XPO on Euronext Paris – Isin FR0000052870.
WHAT MEASURES ARE YOU TAKING TO COMBAT COVID19 WITHIN YOUR WORKFORCE?
For everyone at XPO, our priorities are broken down into: employee safety, business continuity and customer support. Nothing is more important than the safety of our employees. Across our European business, we have
implemented government recommendations, including the required measures for hygiene and hand washing as well as social distancing. We have provided hand sanitizing gels, disinfectant wipes and increased the frequency of cleaning protocols to ensure that all surfaces and equipment are cleaned. In addition, we have widely publicized barrier gestures through individual notes to our employees, and by posting the measures taken at all our sites. This is reinforced by daily safety quarter-hour sessions organised on the sites to remind employees of barrier gestures and raise their awareness. We have also cancelled all non- essential business travel.
We have also extended remote working to sedentary staff without laptops and ordered new portable equipment.
In the UK specifically, since the start of the outbreak of this crisis, we’ve provided Covid-19 specific personal protective equipment (PPE) for 25,000 employees per week, consisting of 295,000 pairs of gloves, 95,000 masks, 5,000 packets of anti-bacterial wipes, 1,900 litres of anti-bacterial soap, and 3,000 litres of hand sanitiser to protect the health and safety of our employees. Helping
22 APRIL/MAY 2020 | FACTORY&HANDLINGSOLUTIONS our people through the pandemic is paramount.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ACROSS THE GLOBE TO HELP SUPERMARKETS AND HOSPITALS? As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, many employees of XPO and other logistics companies are on the front lines of moving critical goods to where they’re needed most. We’re moving the critical goods that hospitals and businesses need the most, including pallets of masks to hospitals in New York City – a COVID-19 hot spot that needs tremendous support.
Our drivers have always been on the front lines, but now more than ever. And it’s exactly where they want to be in this moment. They know it’s challenging out there. But they are 100 per cent committed to supporting our customers and consumers around the world.
In France, we have strengthened solidarity between sites with the transfer of teams from sites with declining volumes to those with strong growth. By looking at figures from early April, we have delivered 500 ventilators, 400,000 coronavirus test kits, 28 million masks and 17 million gloves to Spanish healthcare workers.
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