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Wesco Partners With Liberty Latin America to Provide Relief to Jamaican Communities Affected by Hurricane Melissa
PITTSBURGH, PA / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / Wesco International (NYSE: WCC ), a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, in a joint effort with Liberty Latin America, a leading ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"PITTSBURGH, PA / ACCESS Newswire / December 15, 2025 / Wesco International (NYSE:WCC), a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions, in a joint effort with Liberty Latin America, a leading communications company operating in over 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, are providing support and relief to communities in Jamaica recovering in the wake of Hurricane Melissa.","length":444,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Leveraging a Hurricane Response Plan developed by both organizations after Hurricane Maria in 2017, teams from Wesco and Liberty Latin America quickly mobilized their relief efforts, delivering critical aid and restoring essential communications for thousands of Jamaican residents.","length":282,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Wesco collaborated with Liberty Latin America to not only supply the products to rebuild damaged communications networks, but also to provide food, water, and humanitarian supplies for their employees and communities.","length":217,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The relief effort then began to unfold, focusing initially on providing humanitarian supplies. Generators, food, water, baby formula, tarps, and blankets were all shipped to needed areas within 48 hours. Immediately following this priority, emergency and network rebuild materials made their way to facilities to help restore connectivity, including fiber optic cables, closures, scaffolding, wireless equipment, and other outside plant materials.","length":447,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Hand-in-hand throughout these operations, Liberty Latin America identified all needed products, funneled and streamlined requests through a centralized team, coordinated international transportation (including the chartering of at least one cargo plane), and assisted in product sourcing; while Wesco handled the sourcing, procuring, and acquisition of humanitarian products from local retailers, transportation from store(s) to Wesco's Miami warehouse, and both onsite deliveries and local humanitarian product acquisition in Jamaica.","length":539,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":""The dedication shown by our teams was nothing short of extraordinary," said Rick Arsenault, Wesco Vice President and General Manager, Global Service P...