1.     Covid 19 Crisis Management Center (CCMC) formally decided to help with the air cargo of oxygen plants on 6/16/21.

2.     There was a change in government on 7/13/2021. Sher B Deuba became the new Prime Minister on that date.

3.     Ministry of Finance (MOF) on 8/11/21 agreed to fund the air cargo and requested to use the budget of the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP)

4.     Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) formally agreed to ask for funds from the cabinet on 8/16/21

5.     Government of Nepal (GON) Cabinet meeting on 8/19/21 formally approved the funds and directed Nepal Airline Corporation (NAC) to start its procurement process. NAC made its tender publicly available on 9/20/2021. 

6.     Flash Freight submitted its first tender, which failed because the $275k was allocated by the Nepal government for this purpose, but Flash freight submitted a much higher quote (a. $357,000). 

7.     Tender was reissued by NAC on 11/20/2021 with redefined or relaxed clauses. Flash Freight was the sole bidder, and it won the bid. 

8.     If the MOHP will release payments to NAC by the end of Dec 2021, FF and the consortium agreed to set Jan 12th as a hard deadline by Flash Freight.

9.     With Jan 12, 2022, in mind, FF initiated communication with NOVAIR to prepare for pickup, but the process to release payment to NAC by MOHP did not complete by Jan 7th. As a result, Flash Freight had to cancel the air cargo for Jan 12,2022. 

10.  During the month of Jan 2022, Mission Rebuild Nepal lobbied very hard with the MOHP to release the payment to NAC. After a few weeks of follow-up, the fund was finally deposited into NAC’s account on early Feb,

11.  On Feb 24 and 28^th, citing conflict in Ukraine, Flash Freight said that it cannot airlift plants for previously quoted price.

12.  On March 5^th, 2022, Mission Rebuild Nepal sent out an email to NAC and Flash Freight saying that the Force Majeure clause cannot be applied in our case because the war in Ukraine did not impact air movement in France or other parts of Europe. So, MRN asked for remedy for the liquidate damage it may have caused to the entire project. As a result of which, Flash Freight agreed to ship all plants and fillings systems via sea using its own fund.

13.  On March 6^th 2022, FF submitted a letter to NAC requesting a support letter from MOHP to get the approval from EU to airlift the cargo. Departure schedule of March 10^th was offered. A format for the letter was also given to NAC.

14.  On March 6^th, in response to our letter, NAC sent request letter to MOHP for the support letter with the format.

15.  On March 11, 2022, NOVAIR informed Medioxy that additional amount of EUR 32,000 will be assessed for repackaging of all parts and plants. Reason: NOVAIR already had packaged our plants and parts with air cargo in mind, but those packaging cannot be used for sea cargo because of oxidation risk, which could have resulted in the void of warranty.

16.  On March 15^th, all consortium members agreed to pay for repackaging cost, and gave Mission Rebuild Nepal permission to move forward with the sea cargo option as soon as possible.

17.  On March 24^th 2022, MOHP sent the response letter to NAC advising not to move the cargo via Air and use alternative route via Sea. MOHP also advised to NAC to return the amount which will remain after execution of alternative route via Sea.

18.  On April 18^th 2022, NAC informed to FF advising that the movement will be done via alternative mode Sea i/o Air.

19.  On April 27^th 2022, FF informed to NAC that they will execute the movement of cargo via Sea on FOC basis under FF’s CSR program.

20.  Money that was wire transferred to NOVAIR for to cover repackaging cost did not go through until May 4^th, 2022, due to some technical issues in SWIFT system.

21.  On the third week of May 2022, NOVAIR confirmed that the repackaging work will complete by the end of June 2022.

22.  The consortium has thus decided to ship the plants via sea using Flash Freight services for not cost to the consortium and the government of Nepal.

23.  On July 21^st, 2022, Flash Freight picked all oxygen plants and filling systems from the factory, to ship them via sea.