France: It has offered a wide range of supplies and services from its mainland and the French Antilles, relatively close to the affected regions.

CNN: Offers of aid from around the world

Sound science-based tsunami inundation modeling has been performed for all of Puerto Rico and several localities in the French Antilles and Venezuela, which demonstrates real tsunami threats for this region.

UNESCO: Let's be prepared for tsunami threat in Caribbean, Gulf

Despite its French heritage, the company is based in the Netherlands Antilles, has most of its executive offices in New York and Houston and boasts a Scottish chief executive.

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