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Still nearly impossible to offload Haiti relief cargo by ship

With Haiti’s main port destroyed by the earthquake, aid vessels have the virtually impossible task of delivering their cargo into the devastated nation.

The main dock at Port-au-Prince is partially underwater and ships have nowhere to dock. And before large ships could maneuver into the harbor, a survey must be conducted to see if the quake altered water depths that could cause vessels to ground.

Companies are considering options such as offloading cargo from ships onto barges. But there still would remain the challenge of how to discharge from the barges into the port as the shore side cranes are badly damaged and listing over.

Officials are studying whether another port area could accommodate moving cargo by barge. Though they don’t normally carry cranes, it might be possible to wheel on mobile cranes.

Maersk Line is trying to figure out how to utilize a vessel it operates that transports cargo from large ships; that vessel is presently anchored off Port-au-Prince. Crowley, which normally sends two ships a week, has had to move those vessels elsewhere.

Source: Wall Street Journal

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