Haiti pier opens, road laid into Port-au-PrinceCNN International
January 21, 2010
Relief supplies were heading into Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from ships docked at a reopened pier Thursday, brought into the city on trucks traveling on a repaired gravel road leading from the port.
A Dutch Navy ship, the Pelikaan, was docked at the city's south pier Thursday, unloading 90 tons of humanitarian aid. Two other ships previously unloaded containers.
The reopened pier is older and smaller than the north pier, which was rendered unusable by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck the Haitian capital January 12.
The south pier was damaged, but Haiti port authorities and the U.S. military were able to put it back in shape, although repairs continue. Workers also repaired the road leading into the city and laid gravel on it.
Full article:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/21/haiti.earthquake/(Long article well worth reading in full. Particularly the part at the bottom that discusses the confusion on the ground that has led to the bottleneck of lifesaving supplies.)
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