Michael Kalkman
First name:
Michael
Last name:
kalkman
Division:
Express
Biography:
My name is Michael Kalkman, at the moment I am Global Transit Hub Manager in the great city of Amsterdam. I started to work for TNT in 1997 so right now it is 12 years. . I'm the proud father of two kids a daughter of 13 and a son he is 10. Well, in the winter I really like to ice skate ore snow skiing. And in the summer I'm spending al lot of my free time on my boat, waterskiing with my kid's or sailing. All through the year I practice Judo but lately it looks like al the other guys are getting younger.
Before I joined TNT I was a logistics specialist in the Dutch navy and I sailed around the word for 6 years. But I really liked to get a family and spend time with my kids while they are young. Now they are getting a little bit older and I find the time is right to go and explore the world even more and help all kinds of people around the world, just like have done in my younger years by the navy.
History
- Member for
- 3 years 3 months
Latest blog items
600 trucks to Haiti
25 February 2010
Michael Kalkman
Karim has left us after tree weeks. By now he will be back in Belgium. But last Sunday I picked up Juan Nieto he is ERT member and Ops Supervisor from Argentina and will take over Karims tasks.
In total we sent over 600 trucks over to Haiti: Elisabet Fadul (local WFP staff) started on 12 January with the first one and yesterday Juan sent over nr 600.
TNT Office in Santa Domingo
18 February 2010
Michael Kalkman
Yesterday I visited the local TNT office in Santa Domingo. It is not a very big operation, they export only about 16 shipments a week and have an import of about 200. They have only four dedicated persons and the delivery is done by the cars they are using also for their own use.
In the Dominica Republic TNT uses an agent called “Vimenpaq”. The agent also works for Transexpress, IBexpress, UPS, FEDEX, DHL and there own company Expreso Nacional.
15 days to go...
16 February 2010
Michael Kalkman
Like helping a team from the NRC “The Norwegian Refugee Council” this is an independent, humanitarian non-governmental organization which provides assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide.
And then there is the team of cooks. I have been rather busy with these people when they came over to Santa Domingo. They could not find the material they sent over using DHL. I tracked down the materials in a warehouse of DHL, made sure they were able to clear it and hired a truck to bring it over to where they were staying.
Looking for additional possibilities
10 February 2010
Michael Kalkman
We need to feed approximately 2 million people every day. Right now we are rucking the goods from the ports of Santo Domingo to Haiti, but it takes a long time to get the food to the beneficiaries. Shipping is much faster, so soon we will transport a whole lot of food into Haiti with ships.
This is the reason WFP is bringing in specialists like Eric Mora. Eric is not a WFP staff member but a specialist they hire when they need to find out whether other ports can be used for shipping food in the quantities required for Haiti.
