A.W. Jenkinson Transport Limited, one of the UK’s largest providers of haulage, distribution and logistics services, has filled two articulated trucks with 44 pallets of items ranging from dried food to medication, bedding and nappies.
The hundreds of boxes were gathered by volunteers at the Ukrainian POW Chapel at Hallmuir near Lockerbie; Lockerbie & District Rotary Club; the Rotary Club of Dumfries Devorgilla and at Dino Polish Shops in Dumfries and other locations in Cumbria.
The donations are en route to a charity in the town of Zlotoryja in western Poland, where they will be distributed to Ukrainian refugees who have escaped their war-torn country with little or nothing.
“Providing this service for free is the least we could do,” said Teddy Stamper, Transport Manager at A.W. Jenkinson Transport. “We wanted to do anything we can to help ease in a small way the suffering of these people, who have been going through something horrendous.”
Attached: the loading process photographed by Mulholland Media. The two trucks left A.W. Jenkinson’s Whinfellpark Farm near Penrith bound for the company’s base in Sittingbourne in Kent, where the donations were transferred onto two of the company’s special European trucks before being sent to Poland.
Notes to editors:
- W. Jenkinson Transport Limited is one of the UK’s largest providers of haulage, distribution and logistics services, with a fleet of more than 900 vehicles. Founded in the mid-1960s, the company and its associated businesses handle over 3 million tonnes of roundwood, chips, shavings, sawdust, bark, green waste and other timber co-products each year, collected from forestry sites, sawmills and other wood processing industries throughout the UK. A.W. Jenkinson’s services link forestry, sawmilling, wood processing, building and demolition sectors with the demands of pulp, paper and panel manufacture, energy generation, agriculture, horticulture and amenity markets in an environmentally responsible cycle that makes maximum use of one of the world’s dwindling resources.
- The company is closely linked with A.W. Jenkinson Forest Products, a global forestry company.
