HAITI / PORT

Wednesday's aftershock of 5.9 magnitude had set the Haiti port recuperation operations back by a day, Today, the port is up and running, representing a major development in efforts to get aid to earthquake victims as ships are able to carry much more cargo than air airplanes. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:23
• Production Date: 21 January 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U100121g

Description

STORY: HAITI / PORT
TRT: 2:23
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 JANUARY 2010, PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, cargo ships and hospital ship docked out at sea by port in Port-au-Prince
2. Med shot, US coast guard officer standing in the port
3. Close-up, US coast guard insignia in front of a boat
4. Med shot, soldier unloading a stretcher from a Dutch cargo ship
5. Med shot, medical supplies pan to military aid workers
6. Wide shot, Dutch offloading humanitarian supplies from a cargo ship
7. Med shot, Dutch worker signaling to crane crew at the port
8. Wide shot, crate of humanitarian goods is lowered
9. Close-up, a crate of diapers
10. Med shot, some crutches offloaded
11. Wide shot, military supplies offloaded from cargo ship
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Commander Mark Gibbs, Coast Guard, United States:
“Losing this pier will lose for the majority of us the ability to bring humanitarian needs in. If it goes into the water, we almost shut down. Right now you see in the LCU behind you, that’s bringing in equipment right now, just to help with the effort. This is bringing in the goods these people need. So us protecting this is our number one priority right now.”
13. Wide shot, extensive damage to the port
14. Wide shot, rubble of port with ship in the background
15. Wide shot, US cargo ship docking in the port
16. Med shot, American flag
17. Med shot, soldiers near the ship
18. Wide shot, French cargo ship at port
19. Med shot, Dutch flag on the Dutch ship at port
20. Med shot, man moving a large crate on a dolly
21. Wide shot, port machinery on a ship
22. Wide shot, truck backing onto a ship to offload
23. Med shot, US workers directing the truck
24. Med shot, US worker helping offload the truck
25. Wide shot, truck backing onto the ship for offloading
26. Med shot, US marine standing on the pier at the port
27. Wide shot, military truck pulling into port
28. Wide shot, pickup truck driving out of port with offloaded material

Storyline

Yesterday’s (20 Jan) aftershock of 5.9 magnitude had set the Haiti port recuperation operations back by a day. Today, the port is up and running.

Reopening of the port represented a major development in efforts to get aid to earthquake victims as ships are able to carry much more cargo than air airplanes.

Haitian port authorities and the United States Coast Guard continue to repair the damaged south pier and manage the port.

Lt. Commander Mark Gibbs, US Coast Guard, said that countries like the US are working to protect the pier simply because it is one of the most important ways to get the essential humanitarian aid into the country.

Today, two-way traffic on the pier greatly sped up the offloading of hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid supplies. In one day, dock workers had offloaded 124 containers of humanitarian aid from vessels from the Netherlands, the United States and France.