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Overview

China Eastern Airlines donates medical supplies to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to support COVID-19 response in the Netherlands (Linked to Record ID #s #102070, #102071)

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$28,545
Commitment Year•2020Country of Activity•NetherlandsDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•NetherlandsSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Mar 15, 2020
End (actual)
Mar 18, 2020

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

State-owned companies

  • China Eastern Airlines

Receiving agencies

Miscellaneous Agency Types

  • Erasmus University Medical Center

Private Sector

  • Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines)

Implementing agencies

State-owned companies

  • Xiamen Airlines

Loan description

China Eastern Airlines donates medical supplies to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to support COVID-19 response in the Netherlands (Linked to Record ID #s #102070, #102071)

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

In March 2020, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, and Xiamen Airlines jointly donated medical supplies to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) to support COVID-19 response in the Netherlands. The first shipment of supplies arrived in Amsterdam on a Xiamen Airlines plane on March 18, 2020, and consisted of approximately 90,000 masks and 50,000 pairs of gloves. KLM then sent these supplies to Dutch healthcare institutions, including Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. It is unclear whether additional shipments were sent from these Chinese airlines to KLM. KLM works with these three Chinese airlines as partners, and sent a donation to China earlier in 2020. China Eastern Airlines' contribution is captured in Record ID#102053. China Southern Airlines' contribution is captured in Record ID#102070. Xiamen Airlines' contribution is captured in Record ID#102071.

Staff comments

1. AidData has estimated the transaction amount for this donation based on price catalogues from the World Health Organization (WHO). Please see the TUFF Methodology for additional details. 2. AidData has assumed that the three Chinese airlines involved in the donation contributed equally. Their estimated individual transaction amount has been calculated as $83,000 divided by 3 = $27,666.67