MPET presented €5,600 cheque to ‘HOPE’

14 June 2023 - On Sunday 11 June, the leading Antwerp terminal operator MSC PSA European Terminal (MPET) presented a cheque worth €5,600 to the Belgian non-profit HOPE Benefit. This happened during the charity organisation’s Kids and Family Sunday at the summer bar ‘Bar Brial’ in Mortsel. HOPE Benefit aims to give people with an illness or any kind of setback a new purpose in life. The donation fits perfectly with the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that MPET aims to demonstrate every day. 

HOPE is the brainchild of Rupert Suply, a popular DJ and football player who succumbed to cancer in 2016. The organisation was handed a cheque for 5,600 euros by CEO of MPET Johan Van Daele on Sunday 11 June. The funds come from selling the scrap iron collected at the terminal. The proceeds support a different charity each time. Other organisations that MPET will support later this year are the ‘Children’s Cancer Fund’ and ‘Me to You’, that supports research projects that fight leukaemia and other bone marrow diseases.

CEO van MPET Johan Van Daele: “Needless to say, I was very pleased to hand over a nice sum to HOPE. We are more than a terminal operator, we are also a company that attaches great importance to our social role. And we are proving that again with this donation.”

Bonny Van den Bergh of HOPE Benefit: "We are extremely grateful that more and more external organisations, such as MPET, are taking their own initiatives to support HOPE Benefit. As a small organisation, it is also the only way for us to continue helping as many charities as possible. That is still our biggest ambition: to help those in need wherever we can. That was the great wish of our inspirer Rupert. Soon, we will again put our shoulders to the wheel on a project of the Children's Cancer Fund. And we will also donate new educational play equipment to children's wards, as we have done to a handful of hospitals in the past. There is a lot in the pipeline anyway.”