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Issue No. 004 — 2020

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GTO NEWS
GTO MEMBER MESSAGE
// MELBOURNE ( Australia ) __________________________
Mrs. Barbara Stokes
Quality Assurance Director
Email:
 barbara@stokesandbell.com.a u
Mrs. Stokes contacted GTO HQ with a request to broadcast a message from her to all of our GTO Members and GTO Agents throughout the world. We are pleased to share the message as she has requested:

Hello to everyone from Melbourne -

Working from home is not much fun.

No friends to talk to or discuss the business with. Only the four walls and a window.

Let us all keep in touch from time to time.

Take care and keep well and know that your GTO friends will be there, when we come out of the other side of this nightmare.

Support each other as much as we can, for we all need to survive this ordeal Mentally, Physically and Financially.

The first rule of Stress Management
is “If this is out of your control, don’t stress” . Think of innovative ways to cope and to help each other cope.
Any visual jokes anyone?

Best to all -

Barbara Stokes
MESSAGE FROM GTO HQ
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Much to our shock and dismay, we have learned the Coronavirus / Covid-19 Pandemic has continued to spread and is now active in 184 countries and territories as of today .

GTO HQ is communicating regularly with many GTO Members and GTO Agents during this global Pandemic.

A large portion of the companies have informed us they are operating with a bare minimum of personnel in each of their offices and most employees are operating from their homes.

Air and ocean carriers and many other vendors involved in international logistics also have many key staff operating from their homes as a precaution. The degree of suspension of air and many sea transport services worldwide is unprecedented. But
management of most companies indicate they will quickly move back to full speed when this ends.

Fortunately, exporters and importers in countries throughout the world are also frequently operating from their homes as they work to negotiate transactions to take place at points after this worldwide Pandemic has been resolved. As a result, we are seeing GTO Members and GTO Agents communicating as they work on
potential business to hopefully take place in the coming months. It seems a growing number are now meeting
" face-to-face " as they make use of Skype, Zoom, Facebook Live and other software / social media. As a note, most of GTO HQ staff are working from home.

We have presented messages from only two GTO Members in this edition of GTO NEWS. However, we are
hearing from GTO Members located in countries throughout the world as they encourage everyone in GTO to take every possible precaution to protect themselves as we move day to day through this Pandemic.

All GTO Members and GTO Agents and their families are in our thoughts and prayers as we continue to move forward.

Best regards to all -

Darrell Summers, Sr.
Chairman
Email: dgs@gtonet.org
GTO MEMBER MESSAGE
// VALLETTA ( Malta ) __________________________
Mr. Kevin Attard
Managing Director
Email:
Mr. Attard contacted GTO HQ with a request to share a message from him to all GTO Members and GTO Agents. We are pleased to share his message:

Greetings to all -

WE ARE KEEPING SAFE AND FOCUSED TO HELP !
 
With the covid-19 pandemic which has paralyzed the world, Customs and Freight Agency Malta, is committed to providing help and support to the Maltese Government in dealing with the terrible crisis that has attacked our country as well as all of our
neighboring countries and every region throughout the world.

We are very carefully taking all the necessary precautions to allow us to keep serving our customers and working with our vendors as we continue to communicate with all Maltese Government entities.

We join together with the global GTO Family to allow us to win in this fight against covid-19 with the goal of coming out stronger in the end.

Please do count on us as your very dependable partner located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea on a
little island in the center of Europe.

As you may know, Malta is a conduit for logistics involving most of Europe.

Let us hear from you if we may be of assistance in any capacity.

Regards and stay safe -

Kevin Attard
GTO FAVORITE VIDEO
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As our companies, families, neighbors and friends take many frustrating steps to survive the Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic, it is ever so important to maintain a firm resolve to NEVER GIVE UP !

We are very pleased to share a short video demonstrating that kind of resolve illustrated against challenging odds.

YouTube Video
COVID-19 REAL TIME TRACKER
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GTO FAVORITE QUOTE
// Patience - Tokugawa ieyasu
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                                                . . . . in Global Logistics

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