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A Gift of Two 3CX Backhoe Loaders for Haiti01-28-10 | News

A Gift of Two 3CX Backhoe Loaders for Haiti

JCB's donated 3CX backhoe loaders prepare to leave for Haiti.

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JCB Chairman Sir Anthony Bamford is making the gift of two 3CX backhoe loaders in response to an appeal from relief agencies for foreign aid.

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The machines are being made available to the US Government and its aid agencies, which are taking a leading role in the relief effort on the Caribbean island. The earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale, has damaged the port and has created a number of logistical challenges hindering supplies entering the nation.

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The contribution to the aid effort follows a series of other JCB machinery donations in recent years to other parts of the world hit by natural disasters, including the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan province in China, when six backhoe loaders worth over $600,000 and a team of operators were sent from the company?EUR??,,????'?????< the region.

JCB also donated machines worth more than $2 million to help in the aftermath of the Asian Tsunami in 2004, with JCB diggers deployed to Thailand, southern India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

Last year the company donated an excavator and a backhoe loader worth $250,000 to help the disaster relief effort in the city of Padang following the devastating earthquake that struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra.