2010 Haiti Earthquake Response Logistics (Seaports) 

Regardless of the apparent utility of air operations for speedy response and time-sensitive supplies, overland from the Dominican Republic and extra straight over the seashore or via the present ports must be the primary means by which the numerous quantity of reduction provides would be delivered.

Ports in Haiti

Though small compared to Port-au-Prince, there have been different seaports in Haiti.

The principle various to Port-au-Prince was Cap-Haïtien to the North, it too may deal with combined cargoes.

To the south, Jacmel was a small port with a single quay, nevertheless it too was severely broken by the earthquake and its port would play a comparatively minor function in receiving reduction provides.

Saint-Marc within the North West did have a small RORO berth, as did Petit-Goâve, Miragoane, Les Cayes, Port-de-Paix, and Gonaïves.

Labadie was principally for cruise vessels and never outfitted for in depth cargo dealing with.

The Haitian Coastguard port at Killick had a small pier however this was severely broken additionally.

The principle causes they weren’t usually utilised past the supply of reduction provides for native populations had been on account of harm, small dimension, presence of derelict vessels, or for probably the most half, lack of excellent high quality connecting roads to Port-au-Prince, the place the overwhelming majority of want was.

The world round Port-au-Prince must function the primary conduit for inbound support flows.

Haiti is just not an island, it borders a big, and compared, a well-developed nation known as the Dominican Republic. A lot support site visitors did move via the Dominican Republic, however once more, the dearth of roads meant this was much less properly utilised within the early levels of the response.

The centre of gravity for the worldwide support response was Port-au-Prince, and so can be its port.

Pre-Earthquake Seaports in Port-Au-Prince

The ocean terminal at Port-au-Prince dealt with 95% of Haiti’s imports and exports of cargo and gasoline.

The picture under, taken in 1994, reveals the port in use by US navy vessels throughout Operation Uphold Democracy.

As might be seen, the world to the North of the North Pier had but to be reclaimed and developed.

The picture under reveals the primary port in 2008.

The French Bâtiment de Transport Léger (BATRAL) naval vessel Francis Garnier visited Haiti in the identical interval because the picture above was taken.

Francis Garnier will make one other look later.

Containers accounted for many cargo earlier than the earthquake, with the North Pier dealing with roughly 230 TEUs day by day.

The 450m lengthy pier had a 15m Washington portal gantry crane and two Gottwald (now Kone) cellular harbour cranes. The pier additionally had a number of container handlers and warehouses, with a a lot bigger container storage yard to the north. Many container vessels visiting the port additionally had ship-mounted cranes, as is frequent within the Caribbean.

The 380m lengthy pier supported South Pier was used for breakbulk and RORO cargo, related to Fort Islet Park, utilized by police and port safety forces, and previously a lighthouse.

Past the pier finish had been 4 breasting dolphins related with slim pedestrian walkways. A ship ramp and harbour tug mooring pontoon had been additionally positioned on the South Pier.

On the north of the port extents was a ship-breaking yard.

2km north of the primary port was Terminal Varreux, the nation’s major gasoline and vegetable oil terminal, with 18 storage tanks and a complete capability of 170 million litres.

The terminal accounted for 70% of all gasoline imports.

To the southwest of Port-au-Prince in Carrefour was a smaller oil terminal known as Thor Terminal, served by a combined pile/earth-supported jetty.

Earthquake Injury

Jaw-dropping photographs of the port emerged on the day following the earthquake.

The picture sequence under was taken from a moored ship on the north pier, unloading containers, when the earthquake struck.

The 2 Gottwald harbour cranes are between the warehouses on the North Pier, one getting used to load or unload the small feeder container ship on the high of the picture and the opposite not in use. A mud cloud obscures a number of the exercise however it’s clear that the pier is laterally spreading.

Within the foreground, a a lot bigger ship with its bow pointing to the smaller ship can also be loading or unloading two containers. Neither container is making use of spreaders. There seems to be a container handler at an angle and different containers are sinking into the liquified soil.

A barely totally different view of the containers above.

The photographs under present the place of the harbour crane, the pier now being utterly submerged, and the smaller vessel shifting (shortly) away from the world.

The ultimate photographs within the sequence present the smaller vessel out of the image however the bigger vessel, nonetheless moored to the submerged pier.

Fairly unbelievable I believe you’ll agree!

I couldn’t discover any supply that initially recognized the 2 vessels, though the photographs had been broadly circulated, they seem to originate with a delivery discussion board consumer with the account title Duquesa in a January 14 2010 publish

Full credit score to Duquesa for sharing the photographs.

The bigger vessel seems to be the MV Michael J, now the Alianca del Plata (though there are others of an identical design)

Michael J additionally seems later within the story.

Pictures taken a day later present additional the harm to the North Pier.

South Pier was additionally badly affected.

The 120 m-long western part of the pier collapsed and pedestrian walkways collapsed. 40% of the piles had been damaged and 45% broken.

Three ships had been moored on the dolphins through the earthquake, MV Nicholas, MV Hybur Star, and MV Gisela.

The entry apron to the pier and surrounding roads suffered important lateral spreading and displacement.

Though not within the port, electrical distribution tools was additionally broken or destroyed so no energy can be obtainable for port operations, lighting for instance.

The shipbreaker pier was destroyed.

On the Varreux terminal, a big size of the pier collapsed, killing 30 males who had been engaged on it on the time.

The Thor Terminal additionally suffered harm from lateral spreading.

Preliminary Response

On the identical day because the earthquake, the US Prepared Obligation Amphibious Prepared Group together with USS Bataan, USS Carter Corridor and USS Fort McHenry, had been positioned on 48 hours’ discover to maneuver however the first property to reach had been airborne.

The equipment of the US authorities and defence began virtually instantly, varied models had been positioned on standby, preparations made and folks organised themselves in readiness for deployment.

On twelfth January, the primary overflight was accomplished by a US Navy P-3 Orion.

A US Coast Guard C-130 and a USAF OC-135 the day after.

Preliminary photographs confirmed that the port infrastructure had suffered important harm.

A number of hazards to navigation had been noticed, reefer containers with their foam insulation, for instance, introduced a harmful floating hazard.

The US Coast Guard cutter Ahead was the primary vessel into port, arriving at 10:34 on Wednesday the thirteenth of January, offering air site visitors management for the airport.

In Port-au-Prince, many piers had collapsed into the harbor and oil had spilled into the water, Commander Durham mentioned, however there didn’t look like obstructions within the channel main into the port, that means that different American or international reduction ships ought to be capable of method the world. For now, although, there is no such thing as a simple technique to land rescue provides from ships, she mentioned.

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Ahead additionally offered provides and help to the native space.

The USCG cutter Fury arrived quickly after.

Already within the space, USS Higgins, an Arleigh Burke destroyer, was diverted to Haiti, arriving off the coast of Haiti on the 14th of January as the primary U.S. Navy ship on-scene, offering refuelling amenities for rescue helicopters.

By the tip of the 14th, US Coastguard vessels off Port-au-Prince included the Ahead, Mohawk, and Tahoma.

The USGC Cutter Valiant decided that Gonaïves and Cap-Haïtien could possibly be used for barges or ships, the previous with a 180-tonne crane and 10m draught pier.

The Joint Process Drive – Port Opening (JTF-PO) Seaport of Debarkation (SPOD), particularly the 832nd Transportation Battalion primarily based in Jacksonville Florida, assembled a Joint Evaluation Crew (JAT) of fifteen personnel, ten industrial stevedores from Ambassador Providers, and a contracting officer. The workforce had tools to help operations akin to telehandlers and forklift vans.

A fifteenth January 2010 report from CNN confirmed the extent of the harm to the South Pier

Apparently, the UN Logistics Cluster advisable that Santo Domingo within the Dominican Republic be used as the first inbound cargo port with varied NGOs reporting that while Cap-Haïtien was viable, the highway situations between it and Port-au-Prince would create important cycle time delay, compounded by the scarcity of vans and drivers.

On the seventeenth of January, the USCG Cutter Oak arrived and after dropping off reduction provides on the South pier launched into her major job of building protected navigation; within the subsequent three days the Oak, her crew and the native harbour pilot surveyed the port and repaired a number of buoys while putting in a handful of latest ones.

Due to the comparatively unknown standing of the port and distance to different appropriate ports, the preliminary logistics idea advanced to 1 centred on a Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS) mannequin.

Logistics over-the-shore (LOTS) is the method of loading and unloading of ships with out the advantage of deep draft-capable, mounted port amenities; or as a way of shifting forces nearer to tactical meeting areas

Joint Publication 4-01.6

The UN Meals Cluster estimated that 140,000 tonnes of meals and 160 tonnes of high-energy biscuits can be wanted, the latter for locations the place gasoline for cooking was unavailable.

By Saturday the sixteenth of January, US forces had been working to 4 fundamental ideas;

Command and management of provides flowing into the logistics hub at Guantanamo Bay

Increasing the USNS Consolation (hospital ship) capacities in readiness for deployment

Port clearance at Port au Prince

Water and MRE inflows through any routes attainable

The USNS Consolation hospital ship left the port of Baltimore on the identical day.

On the seventeenth of January, the USCG Cutter Oak arrived and after dropping off reduction provides on the South pier launched into her major job of building protected navigation; within the subsequent three days the Oak, her crew and the native harbour pilot surveyed the port and repaired a number of buoys while putting in a handful of latest ones.

Main the Coast Guard response was the 11-person Maritime Transportation System Restoration Unit (MTSRU), a speedy response unit whose function is to revive cargo site visitors to broken ports or these affected by another incident.

Aboard the cutter was additionally a command and management cell, answerable for coordinating port actions in cooperation with what was left of the Port-au-Prince Port Authority (APN).

Additionally on the seventeenth of January, the Dutch help ship HNLMS Pelikaan arrived and dropped off reduction provides on the South Pier.

The US Naval Oceanographic Workplace despatched a Northrop Grumman Compact Hydrographic Airborne Speedy Complete Survey (CHARTS) workforce from Nicaragua for 5 days to gather information in regards to the port.

CHARTS was a classy system that used a SHOALS topography/bathymetric LiDAR, DuncanTech small format RGB digicam and a CASI-1500 hyperspectral sensor on Beechcraft King Air 200 turboprop plane.

Put up-processing befell lower than 24 hours after it was collected which allowed the workforce to supply soundings, contours, digital elevation fashions, large-scale charts, and orthorectified picture mosaics to Google for inclusion of their mapping merchandise which had been additionally being augmented with GeoEye high-resolution satellite tv for pc imagery.

The CHARTS workforce was requested to not return to Port-au-Prince due to airspace congestion.

Aerial surveys and satellite tv for pc imagery began to construct up an correct image of the port, joined by the US Coastguard groups within the port, supplemented within the coming days with groups from the US Navy and US Military, layers upon layers.

While this was occurring, native delivery, such because the ferry Trois Rivières shuttled folks and provides alongside its regular coastal routes, with many making an attempt to go away Port-au-Prince

18th of January 2010

Monday the 18th was a key date as a result of it marked the arrival of specialist hydrographic and port survey capabilities and the activation of the US Division of Transport Maritime Administration (MARAD) Prepared Reserve Drive, a powerful 6 days after the earthquake.

Probably the most up-to-date hydrographic survey of the world was 30 years outdated.

Underwater particles and modifications to the seabed from the earthquake meant a wider space survey was a urgent requirement, particularly as bigger ships had been inbound with much-needed humanitarian provides.

The US Navy despatched the USNS Henson survey ship and a 4 man Fleet Survey Crew outfitted with survey tools together with a transportable side-scan sonar and single-beam echo sounder. They had been initially hosted on the USNS Grasp, sister ship of the USNS Grapple, each specialist salvage vessels, however had been quickly arrange on the pier from the 18th

Grasp and Grapple had been an excellent cellular base for the dive groups as she had a decompression chamber (used to deal with a Haitian diver) and her instruments and tools helped the assorted groups to finish their work. It also needs to be famous that USNS Grapple stayed the longest.

Becoming a member of them on the identical day was the Military 544th Engineer Dive Crew, who had been on an train in Belize when the earthquake struck.

The joint workforce carried out backside surveys and investigated the piers and quayside for harm.

The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2, Cellular and Diving Salvage Unit 2 and Underwater Building Crew 1 additionally joined the development and restore effort on the port.

This pier survey concluded that while it was usable, solely a 3rd was accessible as a result of poor preliminary state and earthquake harm. 150 piles required some type of restore between 2 and eight toes under the waterline and 66 piles required restore above the waterline.

The workforce decided that just one truck at a time may drive on the South Pier earlier than it had been repaired.

This was an issue.

The Fleet Survey Crew then moved to the USNS Henson and accomplished an anchorage survey for the en-route hospital ship USNS Consolation.

When this job was accomplished they joined the workforce on the port to hold on with common survey duties, together with putting in tide gauges and utilizing their Expeditionary Survey Vessels for hydrographic surveys.

Utilizing industrial ‘fish finder’ sonar expertise and survey-grade GPS receivers they offered soundings and side-scan info across the piers. Additionally they recognized a slim channel via a surrounding reef that enabled using a close-by seashore as a touchdown spot for the motion of heavy tools through causeways.

MARAD introduced the activation of the Prepared Reserve Drive (RRF).

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood introduced that the Division’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) is sending 5 ships to help with reduction efforts in Haiti.  Gopher State, Petersburg, Huakai, Cornhusker State and Cape Might are being ready to sail to the Caribbean Ocean from totally different components of america.  All are owned or managed by MARAD, and can be crewed by civilian U.S. service provider mariners.

“Sending these ships will assist these on the entrance line of this effort save as many lives in Haiti as attainable,” mentioned Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.  “These ships will add essential capabilities by supporting operations to maneuver massive volumes of individuals and cargo.”

“As soon as once more the U.S. Service provider Marine is answering the decision for help, because it has completed since our Nation started,” mentioned Performing Maritime Administrator David T. Matsuda. “These ships and expert crews are ideally suited to help in Haiti by offering distinctive capabilities.  One cargo ship can carry as a lot as 400 totally loaded cargo planes.”

M/V Huakai is a brand new high-speed ferry able to speeds of almost 40 knots within the open ocean.  Petersburg, Cornhusker State, Cape Might and Gopher State are a part of MARAD’s Prepared Reserve Drive (RRF), which features a whole of forty-nine ships at ports across the nation. 

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One other much less well-documented survey on the 18th, however pivotal nonetheless, was accomplished by a civilian workforce.

Crowley Maritime, a US marine providers firm on contract to the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), truly chartered a small floatplane to take a survey workforce from Titan Salvage to Port au Prince on the 18th of January.

The Titan Salvage workforce concluded that it might be attainable to impact a short lived docking construction within the port utilizing a 400ft x 100ft barge and a crawler crane. The day after, the barge 410 was on the way in which from Texas with an anticipated arrival time of February the 2nd 2010.

This could show to be pivotal, however again to the port.

On the 18th, the barge Crimson Clover, with over 123 20ft ISO containers arrived offshore.

The barge was already inbound to Haiti when the earthquake struck however as a result of the state of the port was unknown when it arrived, it was ordered to carry.

The Crimson Clover was subsequently allowed to dock on the South Pier to dump her cargo

One truck at a time.

USAID had by then additionally contracted with delivery corporations to move 10,700 tonnes of meals, roughly 560 containers value, to Haiti. America Cargo Transport Corp was making ready the barge American Dealer and the oceangoing tug Justine Foss to hold roughly 5,500 tonnes of meals and different provides to Haiti.

By the tip of the 18th, a full understanding of the state of the port was obtainable, a big barge had confirmed that with restrictions, the South Pier was viable, the American Dealer barge was on its manner, and MARAD had activated some distinctive vessels.

A big amphibious drive was additionally inbound, or already in place, delivering smaller portions of support at a number of factors.

Issues on the Pier

There have been some frustrations within the press in regards to the lack of progress.

Getting the port even partially operational would permit officers to hurry deliveries of humanitarian support and provides and relieve the airport, additionally making it simpler to renew industrial flights to Port-au-Prince. Two different Haitian terminals, used to herald gasoline, have additionally been closely broken, mentioned Reginal Villard, a Port-au Prince delivery agent.

Reduction organizations and industrial shippers are chomping on the bit to get cargo in and unloaded. On Tuesday, the Coast Guard instructed Mr. Villard he may unload a barge carrying 123 containers of emergency support towed by a tugboat from Alabama via Puerto Rico to Port-au Prince. But it surely must be completed gingerly, he was instructed.

Crowley Maritime Corp., a Jacksonville, Fla., shipper which operates all through the Caribbean, mentioned it is going to conduct a take a look at seashore touchdown on Friday. A Crowley ship carrying 12 containers loaded with water and ready-to-eat meals will anchor off Port-au-Prince, a spokesman mentioned. A smaller vessel, with a crane aboard, can be ready to unload the containers and carry the provides to the seashore.

Crowley additionally plans to deliver a barge in by Feb. 2 and “put it on the seashore to have it function a makeshift dock,” the spokesman mentioned.

Wall Road Journal

AP launched two video reviews on the nineteenth that described the issues on the port.

One…

Two…

The French touchdown ship Francis Garnier arrived and offloaded provides on the South Pier on the nineteenth, unloading shops, automobiles and building tools.

The Batral is totally loaded: 2 backhoe loaders, 3 mini-excavators, 2 vans, 1 4×4 are parked on the bridge. The amphibious constructing additionally brings a medical workforce, an ambulance, 700 tents and humanitarian cargo for the Purple Cross.

Not everybody was completely satisfied

The Individuals weren’t completely satisfied {that a} French naval vessel, the Francis Garnier, had docked. They weren’t being aggressive. They had been being cautious. The French ship and its cargo may have tipped the pier over like an empty paper cup.

One of many Navy divers mentioned, “Put in your life preservers.” He wasn’t kidding. Close by, the civilian engineer for the Navy had made a pendulum out of a bit of string, a twig and a weight — a half-full plastic eyedropper. He instructed a sailor to regulate it.

“If it begins to swing, run,” he mentioned.

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The HNLMS Pelikaan additionally returned the identical day.

Work on clearance continued and having accomplished unloading, Crimson CLover departed.

The USNS Consolation arrived offshore on the twentieth.

The wonderful G Captain weblog produced a graphic exhibiting all of the worldwide vessels engaged with the reduction operation, click on right here to view.

By the twentieth, ten days after the earthquake, provides had began to reach overland from the Dominican Republic, the operation on the airport was stepping into full swing and helicopters from varied US ships had been ferrying small portions of water and medical provides.

Dutch, French and US Coastguard vessels had offloaded some provides, and survey and preliminary port rehabilitation had begun, however the bulk of the meals provides had arrived virtually by luck, on the Crimson Clover barge.

Helicopters from the primary massive US Navy ships, the united statesCarl Vinson for instance arriving on the fifteenth, had began to maneuver provides however volumes had been restricted, regardless of the vastly spectacular effort. She had offloaded fight plane and embarked helicopters, 19 in whole, on the way in which to Haiti.

USS Bataan was activated because the Prepared Obligation Amphibious Readiness Group, together with USS Fort McHenry and USS Carter Corridor. USS Gunston Corridor additionally joined the Bataan ARG/MEU, arriving on 18th January.

A complete of 48 helicopters had been by now in operation.

Seacor had responded shortly to the earthquake and had a few S-76A helicopters from its aviation division and a air pollution management vessel known as the NRC Perseverance arrived at Terminal Varreux to start repairs.

Scientists from the Rochester Institute of Expertise in New York additionally used LIDAR tools to help mapping utilizing a Piper twin-engine plane, with flights on the twenty second of January.

The Twin Tracks of JLOTS and Port Rehabilitation (to the tip of January 2010)

Meals, water, shelter supplies, medical provides, engineering plant, cooking tools and diverse building provides had been all ready to return ashore. Though responders had been utilising the airport, different smaller ports, overland routes, helicopters and airdrops, the primary occasion was nonetheless the seaport(s) within the Port-au-Prince space.

This could proceed in two parallel tracks;

Getting the marine terminal again into motion

Over-the-beach amphibious capabilities, or JLOTS.

Direct from Florida, the primary LCU of Joint Process Drive – Port Opening (JTF-PO) Seaport of Debarkation (SPOD) arrived on the twentieth of January, and the second the day after, as proven within the satellite tv for pc picture under.

The workforce established a 24×7 shift system and assumed port administration duties with native authorities and different US forces.

Three touchdown areas had been designated, Purple, White and Gold Seaside.

Purple Seaside was the primary terminal (at a few areas), White Seaside close to the Terminal Varreux (established a lot later) and Gold Seaside nestled between the 2.

Working with native authorities, the JTF-PO organized tools and supplies to construct three compacted earth and gravel RORO ramps, Purple 1, Purple 2, and Purple 3.

Within the seaport, containers had been cleared and underwater obstructions had been eliminated.

Purple 1; capable of obtain Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS) and Touchdown Craft Mechanized (LCM) dimension vessels

Purple 2; capable of obtain LCU-class vessels

Purple 3; capable of obtain Logistics Assist Vessel (LSV) class vessels

On the twenty second of January, Crowley Marine unloaded fifty-six 20ft ISO containers of meals and water at Ria Haina within the Dominican Republic from the MV Marcajama for switch overland to Port au Prince.

12 containers had been left loaded on the ship, for an experiment.

Crusing to Port-au-Prince, the Marcajama offloaded the containers while at anchor to a RORO touchdown craft operated G-and-G Transport known as the Cape Specific.

Cape Specific offloaded the containers utilizing the newly constructed RORO ramp on the seaport (Purple Seaside), proven within the picture under taken on the twenty second.

The two.1m draught Cape Specific was chartered from G&G Transport (now Seacor) and constructed by St Johns Shipbuilding in Florida. She was to hold as much as 26 TEU in roll-on-roll-off configuration or if stacked, 46 TEU.

Inspired by its success, Crowley ordered the Macarjama to sail to Miami and return to Port-au-Prince with a full load of containers.

CNN reported a powerful aftershock that required closing the South Pier

A 5.9-magnitude aftershock Wednesday stopped efforts on the pier for about three hours. U.S. Navy divers had to return within the water and reassess the pier’s structural integrity, officers mentioned. There was no speedy phrase if two much less intense aftershocks Thursday, measured at magnitude 4.9 and 4.8, additionally induced a delay.

CNN 22 Jan 2010

JLOTS is the US terminology for a Navy and Military mixed functionality to load and unload ships with out port amenities. JLOTS has a variety of kit however the important thing to operations in Haiti had been the Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS) and a touchdown craft or lighters.

JLOTS arrived in Haiti between the twenty second and thirty first of January on the USNS 1st LT Jack Lummus, USNS PFC Dewayne T Williams, SS Cape Might and SS Cornhusker State.

How did all of it match collectively?

The SS Cape Might (and her sisters SS Mohican and SS Mendocino) are a singular class of vessels known as SeaBee Barge Carriers. Initially for civilian use, their function was the transport of enormous lighters or barges over lengthy distances, on three decks.

They transfer the barges onto the stern-mounted submersible carry, which is lowered into the water.

The carry has a capability of 1,800 tonnes and the ship can carry as much as 38 barges (though fewer are assigned). As an alternative of barges, different pontoons and small vessels might be carried.

For the Haiti response, SS Cape Might purchased the Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS) elements comprising three Causeway Ferries, three Warping Tugs, one Roll-On-Roll-Off Discharge Facility (RRDF), three NL Causeway Ferries, and a couple of Aspect Loadable Warping Tugs.

INLS pontoons had been additionally used to create causeways that allowed touchdown craft and different INLS pontoons to unload with out beaching, White Seaside is proven under.

1 LSV-1, 5 LCU 2000s, 1 LCM 8 and a couple of MFP Utility Boats accomplished the JLOTS tools.

As soon as offloaded the INLS tools can be used to unload the Lummus and Williams and switch the containers, shops and automobiles to shore.

One other necessary piece of the JLOTS jigsaw was the USNS Cornhusker State, a devoted crane ship that would stand off about 3 miles from shore and switch containers from one ship to the lighterage.

Supplementing the JLOTS tools had been USMC LCAC’s, LARC’s and different touchdown craft.

While the JLOTS functionality was being established and used, survey and salvage operations continued in and across the Port au Prince marine terminal, the USNS Henson beginning a multi-beam echo sounder survey on the twenty third for instance.

The INLS tools was used to deliver heavy tools and shops into the port.

On the twenty fourth of January, the French amphibious vessel Sirocco arrived off Port au Prince. The picture under reveals one in every of her touchdown craft utilizing a Purple Seaside RORO ramp (with an LCU 2000 within the background)

On the identical day, the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, the Pelikaan (once more) and the Colombian Navy ARC Cartagena des Indias offloaded provides, utilizing touchdown craft as lighters.

Six Military LCU 2000 vessels arrived on the twenty fifth one proven under.

They may entry the RORO ramp on the Terminal with a big engineering plant or containers.

Work continued in and across the port.

On the twenty sixth of January, the south pier was closed as a result of discovery of further cracks, not discovered within the preliminary survey due to in depth marine progress,

On the identical day, Seacor and the WIN Group (homeowners of the Varreux TerminaL) introduced that they had began a works bundle to renew operations to help the receipt of gasoline, diesel, gasoline oil, propane and edible oils. A 200m short-term pipeline can be put in. 

A number of aftershocks and utilization contributed to the harm. A secondary survey confirmed the South Pier was repairable and the workforce started working making ready the broken piles for restore.

Repairs would want instruments and supplies to be shipped in

Issues had been encountered akin to the one aggregates obtainable being too massive, creating a number of hose blockages that meant a number of the repairs can be made with cement solely. Instruments additionally wore out a lot faster than anticipated, the diving situations had been unhealthy, and sewage and oil spills compounded an already troublesome job.

Nonetheless, the workforce obtained on with it.

One other video from AP on the twenty eighth of January 2010 offered an replace.

And on the identical day, the Washington Put up reported that the South Pier was in a poor state.

U.S. Coast Guard officers mentioned Wednesday that Haiti’s major port is extra badly broken than they first realized, a discovering that has created one other important impediment to reduction and reconstruction efforts. Phrase of the hazards reached the command Tuesday afternoon, the officers mentioned, prompting Haitian and American authorities to hurry a evaluation of the nation’s provincial ports in a race to search out extra methods to pour provides into the capital “With the newest on the south pier, we’ve got to look lots faster,” Coast Guard Cmdr. Wayne Claybourne mentioned in an interview aboard the Oak, a cutter answerable for coordinating Port-au-Prince’s more and more busy harbor site visitors

Washington Put up – Jan 28 2010

The Marcajama returned on the twenty ninth of January, not with 12 containers, however 202. Every was offloaded to the RORO lighters after which onto the seaport.

The barge American Dealer additionally arrived on the identical day, so did the SS Cape Might.

The American Cargo Transport Company (ACTC) American Dealer with the tug Justine Foss offloaded 366 containers and uploaded 500 empty containers. ACTC subsequently outfitted the barge ZB-1 with a 200-ton Manitowoc lattice increase tracked crawler crane, giving it self-contained cargo-handling functionality.

The picture under reveals the ZB-1 with its crane on the south aspect of the South Pier.

Causeway ferries and touchdown craft continued to land containers and automobiles at Gold Seaside.

On the thirtieth, earlier than anticipated and while repairs had been nonetheless underway, the south pier was re-opened for restricted site visitors, the identical day the previous Hawaii tremendous ferry MV Huaka arrived, shuttling between the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Terminal Varreux.

She carried 160 passengers and 5,000 MREs, shortly.

Additionally at Terminal Varreux, the Iver Progress moored, offloading bulk petroleum merchandise.

The Crowley Plan – February 2010

The Crowley Plan originated six days after the earthquake.

Two massive barges can be towed to the seaport, every outfitted with lattice crawler cranes and performing as piers for big container vessels.

Each barges can be spudded into place, withstanding berthing forces from bigger vessels.

They might related to the shore with a linkspan to accommodate massive vans and 40ft containers.

Due to their dimension, vans may drive on, execute a 180-degree flip, and drive off.

Container site visitors on the seaport was at its highest for the reason that earthquake.

The worldwide response was surging provides and all method of support into Haiti.

South Pier was severely broken, however nonetheless usable, albeit gingerly.

North Pier was out of use and unlikely to play any additional half within the subsequent part.

Purple Seaside touchdown craft ramps had proved invaluable, more and more used for each break bulk cargo, automobiles, and containers.

A number of the smaller ports had been dealing with bulk gasoline and different cargo and, native contractors had been constructing a RORO ramp at Terminal Varreux

The SS Cape Might had offloaded three-quarters of the INLS and lighterage and Gold Seaside was taking site visitors.

Cooperation between US and native forces on the port was more and more efficient.

International locations with a regional presence had all contributed with delivery provides in Haiti utilizing the assorted routes obtainable.

RFA Largs Bay departed the UK.

It was not sufficient, however the offload and clearance charges had been about to maneuver up a notch.

Extra shallow draught barges had been inbound and offloaded straight with out double dealing with and transferring to lighterage.

The picture under reveals the American Dealer on the South Pier on February third 2010, on the point of go away after backloading roughly 500 empty containers to create space on the seaport.

The tugs Allie B and Victoria Hunt arrived on the third of February.

On South Pier, the mixed dive workforce continued their work to restore and reinforce it, balancing their security and the necessity to keep site visitors move.

White Seaside was established East of Terminal Varreux, principally for navy site visitors and as an auxiliary pier for small craft.

Each navy and civilian massive touchdown craft continued to make use of Purple Seaside 3.

The Sea Specific II and MV Cristina Specific, each used extensively by USAID, or a US Logistics Suport Vessel (LSV), within the picture under.

A substantial amount of behind-the-scenes work between the onsite workforce from JTF-PO and native contractors and port administration meant that containers and different cargo weren’t simply landed on the port, they had been moved out of it

The speed was restricted by the provision of appropriate vans and drivers, however this too was bettering.

On the eighth of February 2010, the 30m piles for the Crowley Barge 410 had been being pushed, and extra shoreside anchor factors (designed by Jensen Maritime) had been established at Purple Seaside 3.

Bulk gasoline transfers restarted at Terminal Varreux on the ninth of February.

The Barge 410 arrived on the tenth of February and was secured to the dolphins on the South Pier, subsequent to the MV Nicholas (the Hybur Star and Nicholas had departed by then)

In parallel with establishing the Barge 410, Titan Salvage additionally continued to work on eradicating the harbour crane.

Titan Salvage made use of two barges to help gantry crane removing and building and positioning of the Barge 410

The Resolve Marine RMG300 and Affiliate Marine Salvage MB1215.

On the eleventh, the piling was full.

The SS Cornhusker State remained on station, usually working to make sure containers had been ‘contents optimised’

On the thirteenth of February, the Crowley Barge 410 (APN RED) was prepared for site visitors, with the primary ship arriving the identical day, the MV Pafilia.

A linkspan between RED 3 and the barge allowed automobiles entry the barge.

APN RED, or Barge 410, a linkspan and an enormous crane, was a big milestone.

By mid-February, a number of the DoD presence on the port was cutting down as native personnel and contractors re-established and augmented their capacities.

Sufferers to the USNS Consolation had been through Terminal Varreux, permitting Port-au-Prince seaport to focus on cargo.

The gantry crane was utterly eliminated by the 18th of February 2010, and on the identical day, the British arrived!

RFA Largs Bay and components of 17 Port and Maritime Regiment RLC used their embarked Mexeflote to dump automobiles and shops on the major seaport, Gold Seaside and outlying communities.

After finishing the preliminary deliveries she was tasked by the World Meals Programme (WFP) to ship meals to areas that had been reduce off by the earthquake, the village of Anse-à-Veau, in Nippes province for instance.

The four-day operation on the village delivered 275,000 prepared meals, 30 tonnes of rice, six tonnes of beans, greater than 200 bins of corn soya mix, 100-plus bins of vegetable oil, and 13 baggage of salt.

Vessels continued to site visitors the RORO ramps at RED 1 and a couple of, with a Navy Lighterage System (NLS) pontoon offering a linkspan for deeper draught vessels such because the Crowley Shipper proven within the picture under at RED 2., with Cape Specific nonetheless working at RED 1.

Shippers confirmed a powerful bias to the South Pier and Barge 410 as a result of it eradicated the necessity for double dealing with in order the tip of February approached, and the second Crowley barge can be prepared, it was envisaged the demand for JLOTS and lighterage would taper off to zero.

By the twenty first of February, port operations had been beneath the management of the Haitian authorities.

White Seaside was nonetheless there however drawdown plans had been properly underway.

With the gantry crane gone and APN RED at full tempo, the Gottwald harbour crane was subsequent, and after some preliminary disagreement with its proprietor, removing was underway by the twenty first of February

Bulk gasoline deliveries at Terminal Varreux had been in full operation and the domestically constructed RORO ramp continued to supply an extra choice for smaller vessels

Extra building supplies arrived to help the ultimate South Pier repairs.

On the twenty seventh of February, the barge Atka (Autorite Portuaire Nationale – APN RED) was in place and the linkspan was put in.

Normalisation

March 2010 noticed the transition to some semblance of normalcy on the Port-au-Prince seaport, arguably higher than regular if solely seen via the lens of container site visitors.

The 2 APN barges had been working properly, regardless of an incident at first of the month that noticed an offload error introducing a seven-degree checklist and a few minor harm.

Restore of the concrete piles on the South Pier was properly underway, with extra tools and supplies inbound.By the center of the month, USNS Consolation, SS Cape Might and SS Cornhusker State had departed.

On the 18th of March 2010, salvage operations had been accomplished, and all automobiles, damaged concrete and cranes had been eliminated.

On the finish of the Month, South Pier was in a greater form than earlier than the earthquake.

Haiti remains to be a deeply troubled nation, however its major seaport recovered within the years following the earthquake.

The South Pier dolphins are nonetheless there, however their pedestrian footways haven’t been changed. The South Pier is in use, North Pier is again to its place as the primary facility, utterly repaired and prolonged, supplemented with two barges as utilized in 2010.

Hopefully, plans for the longer term come to fruition

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