UN Refugee Agency renews relief shipment agreement with Qatar Airways

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has renewed its partnership with Qatar Airways to support the shipment of relief items.

The two-year partnership covering 2024 and 2025 will see Qatar Airways provide another 400 tonnes of free tonnage to UNHCR to support the delivery of aid supplies.

The airline will use its Hamad International Airport hub, fleet of 28 freighters and more than 200 passenger aircraft operating within a network of 70 freighter destinations and over 170 bellyhold destinations to meet the agreement.

Qatar Airways Group chief executive Engr. Badr Mohammed Al-Meer said: “We are proud of what we have accomplished through our relationship with UNHCR over the past four years, which has helped support displaced communities around the world.

“We look forward to the significant renewal of our partnership and in continuing to aid those who are most vulnerable. Qatar Airways Group is committed to fulfilling its humanitarian role by helping refugees and internally displaced people worldwide.”

Ahmed Mohsen, UNHCR’s representative to the State of Qatar, commented: “We highly appreciate this vital partnership and are proud to renew it for two additional years, which reflects Qatar Airways’ solid commitment towards supporting our humanitarian efforts, in terms of delivering essential relief items to those most in need.”

He added: “Since establishing our partnership with Qatar Airways in May 2020, amid a critical time during the emergence of Covid-19, Qatar Airways has lent us a helping hand to support refugees and displaced communities with vital relief items and medical supplies.”

The agreement was signed by Al-Meer and the UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi in the presence of Mohsen and Qatar Airways chief cargo officer Mark Drusch.

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