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Gama Navodhaya” Scheme by Aitken Spence Cargo |
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Aitken Spence Cargo recently reiterated their commitment to continue supporting Dedunupitiya Maha Vidyalaya, in Mawanella, as part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. An MOU to this effect was signed by Mr. Rohantha Peiris, Managing Director of Aitken Spence Cargo and Mr. Wijeratne , Principal, Dedunupitiya Maha Vidyalaya at a simple ceremony held at Aitken Spence Cargo. This is an extension of the company’s scheme of Re-awakening the Village - “Gama Navodhaya” through being involved in village development/ improvement projects. Aitken Spence Cargo had selected Dedunupitiya Maha Vidyalaya as it is a school situated in one of the Food Insecurity Areas as identified by the World Food Program.
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Aitken Spence Cargo plans to carry out career guidance and mentoring programs to the students in the school’s G.C.E. Ordinary Level and Advanced Level classes. These programmes will be conducted by Aitken Spence Group Human Resource Division in keeping with current training needs and trends. Aitken Spence Cargo hopes this exercise will help the students to reach greater heights. In addition to this Aitken Spence Cargo intends providing selected students with on the job training leading to full time employment.
This is a continuation of Aitken Spence Cargo’s project initiated in 2006 for the improvement of Dedunupitiya Maha Vidyalaya, where the company staff participated in a ‘Shramadana’ campaign at the school. The school building was colour washed, and a new name board was installed. A boundary fence was also constructed, and a computer was donated to the staff of the school. A pipeline was installed as well, to provide fresh water for the students and staff. Speaking at the ceremony, Principal Wijeratne said “ The facelift to the school and the interest shown by Aitken Spence Cargo has resulted in more students being attracted to this once dilapidated school. This itself is a great achievement as more children are now attending school from this area and this will improve the literacy rate of the village.”
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| Aitken Spence Cargo plays a vital role to charter the course of the industry by it's active participation in various Chambers, Associations and Regulatory Bodies. |
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Mr. Nishan Jayawardena, Deputy General Manager, Freight Division was recently elected to the 2007/08 Committee of the Sri Lanka Logistics Providers Association.
Pictured here is Mr. Jayawardena (Standing, Center) with the newly elected committee. |
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| TNT
Express, Official Courier for Sri Lanka Squash Teams for SAG 2006. |
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| TNT International
Express, the worlds leading business to business Air Express
Company signed up with the Sri Lanka Squash Federation as
the Official Courier to the Sri Lanka Squash Team for the
ongoing South Asian Games 2006. The Squash tournament, which
is currently held at the Gymkhana Club Squash Courts, Colombo,
commenced on 19th August 2006 with the Men's Singles segment.
The Sri Lanka Squash Team will face up to teams from India,
Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh and will be hoping to convert
the home advantage to medals. TNT, who are represented in
Sri Lanka by Aitken Spence Cargo have come forward to promote
the sport and the Sri Lanka Team at the SAG 2006.
Rohantha Peiris, Managing Director of
TNT Sri Lanka made the presentation of the sponsorship
package to the President of the Sri Lanka Squash Federation,
Col. Rohan Anthonis at a short ceremony held immediately
after the opening ceremony on 19th August. Saman Thilakaratne
and Kushani Daluwatha the Sri Lanka Men and Womens Team
Captains were also present at the ceremony.
Speaking to media, Mr. Peiris stated
that TNT was happy to associate itself with the game due
to the sharing of common features such as Speed and Consistency.
TNT International Express offers time definite, day certain
and on demand air express services to over 3000 destinations
in 200 countries. In Sri Lanka, TNT has 12 branch offices
around the country including Kandy, Kurunegala, Matara
and Jaffna.
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| Ace
Cargo chartered two freighter aircrafts (AN12) carrying relief
goods for the Earthquake victims in Pakistan |
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1st freighter
was operated on 13th October and the 2nd on the 16th
of Oct. Goods were collected by our own trucks from
customer's warehouse(Customer's name is withheld). Each
flight carried 14 tonnes of cargo destined to Islamabad.
Goods were handed over to a NGO to be distributed to
the people displaced by the Earthquake.
Aircraft used were AN12 freighters.
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TNT & WFP will walk to feed the Hungry
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Walk the World,
TNT Sponsored global walk in Aid of United Nations World
Food Programme s ‘School Feeding Project’
will take place on 12th June 2005 at 10.00 am across
the globe.
In 212 separate walks
in 72 countries, across 24 time zones Employees, Customers,
Suppliers, family & friends of the leading B2B global
express, logistics & mail carrier TNT International
Express & world’s biggest humanitarian organization
& United Nations front line organization in fighting
hunger, the World Food Program will walk to raise enough
funds & spread the message ‘Fight Hunger.’
 TNT
and WFP ground braking partnership’ Moving the
World’ commenced in 2002 to eradicate global hunger.
TNT support s WFP in five key areas: Emergency response,
joint supply chain, private sector fundraising, school
feeding & transparency & accountability through
‘Moving the World’ partnership.
TNT believes that ‘providing ‘food to the
right person at the right time’ can make a life
saving difference. 
In the eve of the Tsunami
aftermath TNT made available its air crafts, ground
transport, resources & personnel to WFP in disaster
hit rejoins which also included Sri Lanka. TNT has committed
€ 224,985 (Approx: 30 million rupees) to Sri Lanka
alone with regard to on-going emergency assistance to
WFP.
As part of the school feeding, the partnership focuses
on providing a mid day meal that could bring about multiple
results; attracting children to school, providing nutrition,
improved learning due to mid day feeding, parents can
better focus on their jobs as a result of children attending
school & reducing the economic burden of low income
communities.
‘Walk the World’
is a fundraiser event organized by TNT globally, for
the purpose of WFP school feeding. Last year, 20th June,
TNT launched 205 fundraiser walks in 72 countries across
24 time zones & managed to raise 750,000 Euros.
In these fund raising walks, 38,000 of TNT staff, WFP
staff & their families & friends participated
with the sole purpose of assisting WFP’s school
feeding program world wide. 
World Food program-Sri Lanka launched its ‘Meals-in-Schools’
pilot project on 25th August 2003 with its partners,
Ministry of resettlement and refugees and the Ministry
of Human Resources, Cultural Affairs & Education.
The project was carried out in five educational divisions
namely Poonahari in Kilinochchi, Omanthai and Nadunakerny
in Vavuniya, Medirigiriya in Polonnaruwa and Koralai
Pattu North in Batticaloa. The pilot project was carried
out by providing approx: 514 Kcal meals to 23,487 children
in 120 schools. WFP estimates that cost per child stands
at 0.19 US$ in providing a mid day meal at school. At
present WFP Sri Lanka feeds 171,000 children in 700
schools.
Walk the World-Sri Lanka will
start at Viharamahadevi Park at 10.00 am on 12th June
2005 & cover a distance of 5 Km in Colombo City.
The event will feature students from various parts of
the country benefited by the WFP ‘Meals in Schools
Programme’, as well as students from Colombo schools.
The event will also be patronized by local celebrities,
sports personalities, leading corporate entities, and
NGO’s.
For more information
contact:
TNT International Express
No. 315, Vauxhall Street, Colombo 02
Tel; (011) 230 8 444
Fax: (011) 2330 586
E-mail: kasi@tntcmb.lk
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Managing Director's message
requesting Aid for Tsunami affected.
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As you may
be already aware Sri Lanka has been one of the worst
affected countries due to Sunday's earth quake in Asia.
The destruction and damage to lives have been extensive
and we have news that even some of our staff members
are affected. We are still not been able to communicate
with some of our staff believed to have been in the
affected areas on the ill fated day.
The country is doing its best to
provide urgent relief to all victims. Many governmental
and private sector organisations are actively involved
in the relief effort. We as a company also have arranged
to provide help in cash & kind to the victims.
In addition we are doing every thing possible to find
out information about our affected staff to help them
on a urgent basis.
We appreciate the concerns
of many of you and are grateful for your genuine desire
to help the victims in this hour of need. Our group
has taken immediate measures to organise relief especially
for people to start their lives again by helping in
the re-construction of houses and providing other
essentials. Aitken Spence & Company, our parent
company has opened a bank account dedicated for collection
of funds, the account details are given below.
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Aitken
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Citi Bank ,Colombo
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200008 |
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CITILKLX |
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(Please note the Swift code
is applicable only for remittances in foreign currency.)
We consider it as our corporate responsibility and has
taken a lead role to help the government and all other
agencies that are now engaged in the relief work and are
willing to coordinate with our overseas counterparts if
they intend to grant financial relief to Sri Lanka.
In the meantime business is coming back to normalcy
in all parts of the country except the affected. The
airport is functioning as usual and the sea port should
be operating from today or latest by tomorrow. Being
a holiday season the impact on the production and import
& exports activity is less, the economic activity
should revert back to normalcy within a couple of days
time. We will keep you posted of the developments and
should you require any further information regarding
the situation in Sri Lanka please do not hesitate to
get in touch with us.
Best Regards,
Rohantha Peiris
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| TNT
flies its maiden journey to aid WFP s disaster relief
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10.01.2004- Colombo, Sri Lanka
TNT International Express announced, TNT owned Air
bus A300 was flown in to Bandaranayake International
Airport (BIA), had laden with 34 tonnes of relief
cargo yesterday (09.01.2005) at 04.05 hrs in response
to its global partner, United Nations World Food Program
s disaster relief efforts in the Island.
Through its partnership with UN WFP In 2003 and
2004, TNT performed airlifts to emergencies in Iraq,
Liberia, Iran, Sudan and Haiti, and transportation
services to several other sites in similar circumstances.
In this instance, Sri Lanka was the beneficiary of
this tie-up between TNT and WFP.
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In 2002, the United Nations World Food Programme
(WFP) and TPG (TNT Postal Group) - the parent company
of TNT International Express, TNT Logistics and TPG
Post - entered into a partnership aimed at a single
common goal: to help eradicate hunger amongst the
poorest people in the world. As the largest corporate
partner of the world's largest humanitarian aid agency,
TPG is committed to leveraging its people, skills
and assets to support
WFP and help make a life-saving difference.
Commenting on the arrival of the TNT relief aid
flight, Mr. Mohan Perera, Country Manager for TNT
International Express in Sri Lanka further stated
that he was delighted that TNT International Express
saw it fit to provide its aircraft fusibilities to
carry assistance to Sri Lanka in this time of need.
Mr. Perera also stressed that TNT s partnership
with WFP transcends all boarders, race, religion,
colour & aim on providing assistance to the right
person at the right time. This is great example of
a corporate entity lending its expertise to the society.
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TNT is also contributing to countries affected by
this disaster in many other ways. TNT is a leading
partner of the Dubai based disaster management Network
which has been deployed an 'Airport Emergency Team"
(AET) at BIA. TNT staffs who are experienced in Airport
ground handling are deployed regularly to supplement
this team. Currently this team is
operating out of the new cargo terminal ware-house
are providing logistic facilities for all relief material
received by Sri Lanka.
Locally TNT-Sri Lanka is supporting the AET with
required resources & other supplies. The WFP is
also a beneficiary of TNT-Sri Lanka s resources &
have currently received support in terms of transportation
of relief material to disaster hit areas.
TNT International Express & its local office
have implemented a sustainable CSR projects by lending
its resources & expertise when required.
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| TNT
wins coveted Sri Lanka National Quality Awards-2004
TNT
International Express, Sri Lanka was selected
as the winner of the coveted Sri Lanka National
Quality Awards-2004 (SLNQA-2004) in the Small
scale service category. The Sri Lanka Standards
Institution (SLSI) announced this on 14th October
2004 coinciding with the Worlds Standards Day.
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The Sri
Lanka National Quality Award is modeled on USA’s
Malcolm Baldrige Award programme and is organized
annually by the SLSI to select & honour organizations
with best practices in all business activities.
According to the SLNQA-2004 criterion, the contestants
are evaluated under eight key categories, namely
Leadership, Strategic planning, Customer &
Market focus, Measurement, Analysis & Knowledge
Management, Human Resources focus, Process Management
& Business results. These key criterions also
cover value areas like social
responsibility, corporate ethics, safety &
environmental improvement.
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International Express is the first Air Express
Company in Sri Lanka to win this prestigious award.
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| National
HRM Award-2003 |
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| Ace Cargo was adjudged
the winner of the Overall National HRM Award for the Services
sector - Medium category, which was proclaimed at the
National Awards Convention held in Colombo on 2nd October
2004 by the Association of Human Resources Professionals
& the Institute of Personnel Management in association
with the Postgraduate Institute of Management. |
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