OCHA Situation Report
South Asia Earthquake
Logistics Bottlenecks as of 18 January 2006


Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Current Issues:
Weather

Helicopter operations have been grounded on January 15, 16 and 17 due to 
bad weather conditions. They have started again today (January 18). The 
majority of main roads into the valleys have been cut off by land, mud 
and snow slides. Daily road conditions updates are available on 
www.unjlc.org. (Logistics Cluster Meeting, 16.01.06; UNJLC Islamabad, 
18.01.06)

Unplanned camps

An urgent need for continuous relief assistance remains in the 118 
unplanned camps below the snowline that have sprung up in the 
earthquake-affected areas. (IASC TF, 16.01.06; OCHA, 14.01.06)

Atlas Logistique

Due to the increased workload in the past days, Atlas Logistique will 
run out of funds by the end of January. Agencies and NGOs are asked to 
submit their plans up till mid April in order for Atlas to plan 
accordingly. (Logistics Cluster Meeting, 16.01.06)

Developments:

Fuel farm Abbottabad

The French military have confirmed that the fuel farm in Abbottabad will 
continue to operate until the end of March. (Logistics Cluster Meeting, 
16.01.06)

Helicopter under-slung load operations

UNHAS has commenced under-slung load operations from Bagh with four 
Mi8s. The U.S. military has handed over all sling nets (a total of 350) 
to UNHAS who will now facilitate all sling load operations, including 
those of the U.S. Chinooks. (Logistics Cluster Meeting, 16.01.06)

Training for humanitarian aid workers

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has provided Norwegian Alpine 
Support Teams to train approximately 1000 UN and international and local 
NGO staff on how to prevent illness or fatal accidents in the mountains. 
Trainigs have started in the Allai valley and will continue in other 
affected areas. (NRC, 16.01.06)

This Logistics Bottlenecks report is a joint product of UNJLC and OCHA. 
For queries or comments please contact Ingrid van Beuzekom 
vanbeuzekom@un.org. Sources used are: contact with UNJLC staff, 
ReliefWeb, minutes from cluster meetings and sitreps, Pakistan 
Meteorological Department, press briefings.


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