Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group, is donating 100,000 FFP2 masks to the French Government to help with the national effort to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic.
These masks are available immediately and are delivered to Paris Regional Health Agency (Agence Régionale de Santé d’Île-de-France), which will allocate them throughout France over the coming days in accordance with healthcare needs.
The CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, is paying particularly close attention to the developing Covid-19 epidemic and is taking all necessary measures to protect its employees around the world.
CMA CGM Group staff are working every day to provide continued support to the transport and logistics of goods throughout the world, particularly pharmaceuticals and food products.
The CMA CGM Group will continue its efforts to help tackle the epidemic over the days and weeks to come.
Rodolphe Saadé, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CMA CGM Group, commented: “Faced with the health crisis now facing France, we offered to provide 100,000 masks to the French Government. The CMA CGM Group stands side by side with the Government in helping to tackle this epidemic. As a company, we must do everything we can to protect our employees and also play our part, alongside the Government and healthcare staff, in dealing with this epidemic.”