Bolloré Transport and Logistics and UNICEF will be working together to fight malaria in Cote d’Ivoire, APA can report on Monday.
As part of the campaign against malaria in Cote d’Ivoire, Bolloré Transport & Logistics is ensuring the import, storage and distribution of 13 million mosquito nets for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
After the success of the 2018 and 2019 operations, Bolloré Transport & Logistics Cote d’Ivoire has renewed the process of transporting 418 containers of mosquito nets to the country.
Since the end of 2020, these containers have been handled, stored and transported by road to the company’s warehouses.
The Bolloré warehouses are thus able to dispatch 80,000 bales of long-lasting impregnated mosquito nets (LLINs) to 67 health districts in Cote d’Ivoire.
This logistical operation of UNICEF equipment will be completed in May 2021.
Thanks to the expertise of the operational teams and efficient logistical solutions, Bolloré is thus contributing, alongside UNICEF, to the fight against malaria, which affects 4 million people every year and causes 3,000 deaths in Cote d’Ivoire.
“We are happy to have been chosen by UNICEF for the logistics of these impregnated mosquito nets useful for the fight against malaria in our country. We are putting the quality of our logistics network and the experience of our 1,500 Ivorian employees at the service of our partners, who are mobilised to ensure the safe logistics of materials intended for the Ivorian population,” Bolloré’s local Managing Director, Joël Hounsinou said.
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