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Ocean Star International Shipping Responds To The Earthquake Disaster In Port Au Prince By Donating All The Transportation Costs Of Four 20' Shipping Containers Full Of Humanitarian Aid From Miami To Haiti .
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"Ocean Star freight forwarder stands prepared to aid and further raise humanitarian aid and relief consciousness in this important time of extreme necessity. We've been directly in transporting commercially to Port Au Prince for years. It is our civil must to facilitate the survivors of the haiti earthquake in the best way we know how. Our team is braced and coordinating with charitable groups to organize drop off points in Miami and Broward. We're dealing with the Catholic Charities and other humanitarian aid organizations on the ground in Haiti for destination centers in Haiti", states Christopher Norwood, VP of Caribbean Department.. "In addition to the four shipping containers we have sponsored, we are looking for more sponsors."
OSI freight forwarder will have two drop points and is asking for contributions of canned food, clean drinking water, blankets, clothes, and medical devices.
Broward County
Ocean Star International office
10880 Wiles Road, Coral Springs, FL 33076|
954.753.4533
weekdays - 9am-6pm
Miami-Dade County
Notre-Dame D'Haiti Church
110 Northeast 62nd Street, Miami, FL 33138
305.751.6289
On March 8, 1931, the Catholic Charities was formally created in Miami and is currently the biggest non-governmental provider of services and aid to the needy in South Florida with over 600 volunteers. www.catholiccharitiesadm.org
The ports in Haiti finally re-open. The world can once again begin to forwarding containers of relief and construction supplies directly into Port Au Prince, Haiti. Many organizations have been collecting donations and can now ship the full container loads to survivors via ocean freight shipping. Until now, most of the humanitarian aid has been arriving through air freight shipments.
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