Will help keep oxygen supply moving, say transporters

A tanker carrying oxygen from Indore was sent to Gujarat by the AIMTC recently

Despite their losses, transporters have decided to volunteer free of cost with lorries and logistic support to keep the oxygen supply moving, say they will try and extend all possible help to people.

Bal Malkit Singh, AIMTC

The All-India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) said that they will offer all required assistance to provide free logistics support - transportation, distribution and warehousing facilities for oxygen cylinders, COVID-19 relief material, essential drugs and other essential commodities on a pan-India basis - free of cost.

Services have already started in Mumbai and Nashik.

"This is our bit in extending assistance to the people of the country to deal with the pandemic. We also offer help in providing a network of warehousing facilities for medicines and essential commodities, as well as a network of trucks for supply of oxygen cylinders/COVID-19 relief material and commodities across the country. The road transport fraternity supports the people of our country in this hour of crisis and vows to maintain the supply chain for them," transporter Bal Malkit Singh, chairman, core committee and former president of the AIMTC, said.

"Though India is producing enough oxygen, COVID-19 hospitals are gasping. The delay in transportation of oxygen to dealers, filling of cylinders and supply to hospitals can be aggravated if even a tiny link in the supply chain falters," he said.

"AIMTC may be contacted on WhatsApp (9711498337 and 9820022547) for any logistics requirement, and we will try to extend all possible support," Singh added.