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Snapshot - Interagency Warehousing and Surface Transport
Interagency Warehousing
The earthquake in Haiti of January 12 destroyed much of the infrastructure in PAP and the outlying affected areas, including many of the existing warehouse facilities. In response to the need to consolidate incoming cargo for onward transport, WFP, as lead agency of the Haiti Logistics Cluster, has established overland transport by air and road from the Dominican Republic and secure interagency storage and transport capacity to serve the humanitarian community. Inside Haiti, the Logistics Cluster is assisted by our partner, Handicap International/Atlas Logistique (HI/AL), a French NGO specializing in logistics and technical support.
WFP, the Logistics Cluster and HI/AL already had a structure in place in Haiti before the earthquake on 12 January 2010 which was expanded to meet the scale of the current emergency.
WFP truck managed by HI/A for interagency transport; photo Esther Russell
Altogether four inter-agency storage facilities have been made available in Haiti through the Logistics Cluster.
- 3,500 m2 in PAP behind the US Embassy.
- 3,200 m2 in PAP at the Airport Industrial Park (AIP).
- 350 m2 in Petit Goave
- 350 m2 in Jacmel
Three of these warehouses are managed in partnership with HI/AL. LC Warehouse 2 at AIP is managed by the LC and local NGO BND with HI/AL support.
To date 37 organisations, agencies and NGOs have utilised LC inter-agency storage facilities in Port-au-Prince, including AAA, ACF, ADRA, Arche Nova, ASB, Cap Anamur, Caritas, DWHH, Help/Action Medeor, JUH, MDM, Mercy Corps, MHD, Oxfam GB, Shelter Box, THW, UNICEF and WVI.
6150 m3 of NFI have moved through PAP W/H 1 and 448 m3 of NFI have moved through the newly-established W/H 2. Land has now been cleared for the installation of Mobile Storage Units (MSUs) to provide additional storage. There is also a possibility for organizations to request an MSU on this site under their own management.
Common transport services
The Logistics Cluster is also facilitating the deliveries of emergency relief items through a fleet of trucks managed by WFP and Atlas Logistique/Handicap International. Available assets and their locations are:
- 29 trucks in Port-au-Prince
- 11 M6 trucks in Jacmel
- 5 M6 trucks in Petit Goave
- 16 M6 trucks in Gonaives
- 10 M6 trucks in Cap Haitien
To date, the fleets of trucks have delivered 1,791 mt of humanitarian cargo for over 49 UN agencies and NGOs to areas in and around Port au Prince, Leogane, Petit Goave, Grand Goave, Jacmel and Gonaives, facilitating the delivery of goods for the Shelter, Health, Water and Sanitation, Food and Nutrition Clusters. The all-terrain trucks in PAP are now being moved into the provinces to serve difficult road areas and being replaced by urban trucks donated by the Clinton Foundation.
Logistics Cluster interagency warehouse; photo Elena Rovaris
Other documents related to this topic are:
- BLOG post about “An inter-agency fleet in Haiti: Atlas Logistique /Handicap International”, available at: http://www.logcluster.org/about/blog/interagency-fleet
- Snapshot on how to access Logistics Cluster temporary storage services:, available at: http://www.logcluster.org/ops/hti10a/snapshot-tsr
- Snapshot on how to access Logistics Cluster cargo movement services, available at: http://www.logcluster.org/ops/hti10a/snapshot-cmr
