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May 13, 2020 (newstodate): With the first landing at Copenhagen Airport on April 8, 2020, the Maersk Bridge aims to bring in large volumes of PPE from China to Denmark and Sweden on 26 freighter operations.
The initiative has now seen the 10th operation from China to Scandinavia in the form of another An-124 flight carrying three million surgical masks, 260,000 face masks and 135,150 isolation gowns into Copenhagen Airport on May 11, 2020.
With this latest operations, the Maersk Bridge tally accrues to more than 2,800 cb m of PPE, including 13,5 million surgical masks, 590,000 blue gowns, 340,000 isolation gowns and 150,000 face shields - corresponding to 227 tonnes of shipments.
The Maersk Bridge project covers the sourcing and transportation of PPE from China to Denmark, and was developed as a response to a request from Righospitalet to A.P. Moller Holding for help in sourcing crucial PPE for Danish hospital and medical care workers.