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Highlights
- Las Americas airport in Santo Domingo is starting to experience congestion problems. Organisations are encouraged to use other airports such as Puerto Plata and Samana, in close coordination with the airport management authorities (Aerodom).
Security
- The security situation remains tense and relief workers are recommended to travel with an escort to many places in Port-au-Prince and the affected regions.
Civil/Military Coordination
- The Chief Air Transport Officer of UNHAS (the UN Humanitarian Air Service) and the Logistic Cluster’s Civil/Military Officer are coordinating activities at the airport with US military unit tasked with assisting with clearance of relief cargo, the ferrying of goods for airlift and loading of organisation’s trucks as required.
Air Operations
Port au Prince Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport
- Humanitarian cargo arriving at the airport is now being moved to a forward dispatch area at the northern end of the runway which will relieve the current vehicle traffic congestion on the main cargo ramp.
UNHAS
- The UNHAS passenger service between Port-au-Prince and Santo Domingo is ongoing with two 10- person flights per day.
- A WFP-contracted Antonov 12 will arrive in Port-au-Prince on 22 January.
- A WFP-contracted Caribou aircraft managed by UNHAS began flights on 21 January between Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince. The aircraft has a capacity of 4 mt and will be performing 2 rotations per day.
- Aerial assessments using available assets can be organized via the Logistics Cluster. These must be coordinated through each cluster.
Santo Domingo Las Americas International Airport
- Las Americas airport in Santo Domingo is starting to experience congestion problems. Slots are being opened to operate from 22h00 to 07h00.
- Organisations are encouraged to use other airports such as Puerto Plata and Samana, in close coordination with the airport management authorities (Aerodom)
Surface Transport
- Twenty 15-mt trucks have been contracted to support inter-agency operations within in Haiti and another 30 will soon be added. These are in addition to the 40 WFP-contracted M6 trucks already managed by Atlas/Handicap International.
- 40 trucks have been leased by WFP for inter-agency use to transport cargo from the Dominican Republic to Haiti.
- The Logistics Cluster in Santo Domingo can assist in arranging escorts for humanitarian staff and cargo travelling within Haiti.
- All requests for cargo transport, including cargo by air (UNHAS) should be made by filing a Cargo Movement Request to haiti.cargo@wfp.org
- CMR forms are available at http://www.logcluster.org/ops/hti10a
Sea Transport
- Smaller ships are currently using the south pier in Port-au-Prince. Larger ships carrying goods for WFP will be focused on Laffiteau.
- The port at Jacmel is operational for small ships with drafts of up to 3 meters.
Warehousing
Port-au-Prince
- There remains space available in the interagency warehouse near the airport. Requests for storage should be made by filing a TSR (Temporary storage request) form with the Logistics Cluster, available at http://www.logcluster.org/ops/hti10a
Santo Domingo
- 2,500 m2 of warehouse space in Las Americas airport has started to receive inter-agency cargo and space remains available. The Logistics Cluster is trying to secure additional space as it is that incoming cargo to Santo Domingo will increase significantly in the coming days.
Dominican Republic
- The corridor from the Dominican Republic remains the best option for the majority of incoming cargo.
- The border at Jimani is open from 07:00 to 05:00 Haitian time (08:00 to 06:00 Dominican time). The busiest traffic is between 07:30 and 11:00.
- MINUSTAH-escorted truck convoys carrying goods to Haiti leave the border 07:00 and 14:00.
- The Peruvian battalion escorting the convoys across the border wait until there is a sufficient number of cars and then make the crossing, which takes about 15 minutes.
- Contact details for the Logistics Cluster cell in Santo Domingo are on the Logistics Cluster website at http://www.logcluster.org/ops/hti10a
- Customs clearance services are already being provided to the humanitarian community in Santo Domingo.
Fuel
- The Logistics Cluster is planning to transport 12,000 gallons of fuel from Santo Domingo into Port-au- Prince every second day. This can be augmented if required.
- Organisations in need can request drums which they will get at cost during this initial period of the emergency. Requests have to be coordinated to avoid congestion in the workshop.
Pipeline
- All organizations operating in the Haiti Earthquake response have been asked to provide their pipeline information to the Logistics Cluster so an overview of assistance can be made available to the humanitarian community, the government and donors. This should be forwarded to Global.LogisticsCluster@wfp.org
Other
- A Logistics Cluster staff member is helping to coordinate the construction of the 200-person humanitarian camp being assembled in MINUSTAH’s Camp Charlie.
- Logistics Cluster meetings are held daily in Santo Domingo and every two days in Port au Prince (from 22 Jan) Meeting announcements are posted on the Logistics Cluster website. http://www.logcluster.org/ops/hti10a