Since the heavy rainfall in Germany over the past few weeks turned small streams into raging rivers, large parts of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Rheinland-Pfalz have been declared disaster areas. Since then, a wave of aid has been running throughout Germany. Clark Europe is also helping the people in need and is supporting the German Technische Hilfswerk (THW) in the disaster operation at the Nürburgring. Three Clark WPio 15 electric low-lift trucks and a Clark C30D diesel forklift are on site loading the THW’s emergency vehicles, which are travelling from there to the disaster areas, with materials and helping to supply the relief workers on site.

Joint aid project: Clark Europe provides the THW with free forklifts for disaster relief work and the Clark dealer Gabelstapler Finger transports them free of charge to the base camp at the Nürburgring

“For us at Clark Europe, it was clear from the outset that we wanted to help the people in need as a result of the floods,” explains Karl Hielscher, Director Logistics at Clark Europe. “I immediately contacted the THW. The head of operations in charge told us that materials handling vehicles were urgently needed – to load the emergency vehicles, to supply the relief workers and to distribute the donations in kind, which are now stored in three halls. The transport of the Clark trucks to the Nürburgring was organised free of charge by our dealer in Wermelskirchen, the company Gabelstapler Finger, whom we would like to thank again.”

 

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