Schiphol donates 29 used electric buses to Ukraine
Schiphol has given 29 electric buses, once used to carry passengers airside at the airport, to Ukraine, where they will serve as city buses and school buses.
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Illustrative photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). / CC BY-SA 4.0
Schiphol is donating 29 used electric buses to Ukraine. Until now the buses had been used airside at the airport, where they carried passengers. Once in Ukraine, they are to be used as city buses and school buses.
Schiphol CEO Pieter van Oord handed the buses over to Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Kostin and to Jaap Scholten, the founder of the Protect Ukraine foundation. Protect Ukraine also helped to load the buses with aid supplies.
The buses will go to local and regional Ukrainian authorities, schools and other civil society organisations. Among the recipients is a hospital for war veterans.
The buses are not travelling empty. They are filled with aid such as generators and medical supplies, so the vehicles themselves and the goods inside arrive together.
The 29 donated vehicles had been operating in the restricted airside area of Schiphol airport, where they carried passengers.
Source: Schiphol
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