UPS will make 25 flights to bring medical supplies over to the U.S.
The United States is in dire need of medical supplies. Yahoo Finance’s Adam Shapiro addresses how UPS will make 25 flights to bring masks, surgical gowns, gloves and thermometers to America.
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JULIE HYMAN: All right. I want to turn to UPS. Not a small business, a very big one. Adam Shapiro, you have been in touch with the company because they, like 3M, are bringing in a lot of medical gear from outside of the United States.
ADAM SHAPIRO: That's correct, Julie. And they call it project air bridge. This is in conjunction with FEMA and other private sector companies that produce the gear that the hospitals desperately need now. So what's going to happen over the next two weeks-- and the first flights have already arrived. Three million plus pounds of surgical masks, surgical gowns, the protective gear that folks need, thermometers, medical swabs-- it's all en route to the United States. Again, over the next two weeks, 25 individual flights.
UPS describes it as 714 747s fully loaded will be coming from China, Malaysia, and Honduras. And they're flying into the new UPS 450,000 square foot health care facility in Louisville. It's just outside of World Port, which is their mega facility in Louisville. And from there, they will be delivering these goods to hospitals nationwide.
The outgoing CEO David Abney said, quote, in addition to managing and brokering these air freight flights, they're going to ramp up around the clock operations to provide receipt of the protective equipment and distribution to hospitals and hot spots around the country. Again, it's in conjunction with FEMA.
JULIE HYMAN: Adam, thank you.
