The 20 Fuso Canter trucks, worth over half a million Euros, will be used to distribute food supplies in Haiti.
The trucks were handed over to the Haiti aid initiative of former US President Bill Clinton, who presented this project last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Andreas Renschler, the Daimler AG Board of Management member responsible for Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses, said, “Everyone who looks at the images coming out of Haiti is asking himself, ‘What can I do?’ And trucks are what we do best. That's why we're giving the helpers in Haiti 20 trucks worth over half a million euros.
"We’re happy that with this donation we can help to provide the people of Haiti with urgently needed aid materials. The global presence of Daimler Trucks is an advantage for us here, because we've been able to access at short notice the Fuso Canter trucks that are already in the region.”
Thanks to their high payload capacity, Fuso Canter trucks are ideal for distributing aid materials such as blankets, medicines, food, and water in the refugee camps. And because of their agility the Canter trucks will be able to travel reliably through devastated areas and along roads blocked by wreckage in order to reach distant camps.
Read more about the Fuso Canter truck here.