Daimler sending 50 trucks to help relief efforts in Japan
 

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With the situation still deteriorating in <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/japan">Japan</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/mercedes-benz">Daimler</a> has announced that it is donating 50 new trucks to help out with disaster relief. The generous donation is being made to the Nippon Foundation and includes eight <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/zetros">Mercedes-Benz Zetros</a> trucks, four <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/unimog">Unimogs</a>, four <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/g-class">G-Class</a> SUVs and thirty <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/mitsubishi">Mitsubishi</a> Fuso Canter trucks.<br />
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The latter are built by Daimler in Japan, and as such, will be easier to deliver, but the remaining 20 Mercedes trucks had to be airlifted from Germany to Japan by means of two Antonov 124 cargo planes - the largest serially-manufactured planes in the world (second only to its big brother, the Antonov 225, of which only one was ever built in order to transport the Russian space shuttle).<br />
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The donation amounts to approximately &euro;4 million ($5.8M), and follows the &euro;2 million ($2.9M) cash donation which Daimler sent shortly after the disaster struck. An additional initiative of the company's employees has already raised another half-million euros, which will be distributed via the Red Cross.<br />
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