WFP Logistics

Overview
WFP supports development projects targeting some 247,000 beneficiaries in food-insecure regions, provides emergency assistance to over 255,000 refugees from Sudan, to 188,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) and 150,000 members of the host population in eastern Chad, as well as to over 77,000 refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) in southern Chad. In addition, WFP runs a UN humanitarian air service and manages the fleet augmentation and logistics cluster coordination operation.

Team
The Chad logistics team consists of 45 staff. Twenty-one are under UNHAS and seven of them in different sub-offices.

Activities

Port Operations

The Libyan Corridor
From the port of Benghazi, food is supplied to Chad by truck convoys through the Sahara desert (2800 km). About 40% of food required for Chadian operations is supplied through this corridor.

The Douala corridor
From the port of Douala, food is supplied to Chad by rail (over 800 km) and by road (1200 km). About 60 percent of food requirements for Chadian operations are supplied through this corridor which is the main gateway for goods for all humanitarian actors as well as for private companies.
In January 2009, the Cameroonian Transport Ministry granted special authorization to WFP to send trucks directly from Douala to Chad, using the Bafoussam road. Some 14,000MT have been dispatched through this road since the beginning of 2009 enabling Logistics to speed up dispatches before the start of the rainy season.

Storage
Commercial storage is available in the airport. All organizations and NGOs must have their own storage facilities. Due to large volumes of food to store, WFP has rented several warehouses in Abeche, N’Djamena, Moundou, Mao and Mongo.

-WFP warehouses – Abeche City (2 rubb halls + 2 concrete)
-WFP warehouses – Abeche South (10 rubb halls)

Surface Transport
Transport infrastructure within Chad is generally poor, especially in the north and east of the country. The roads are mostly unpaved and are likely to be impassable during the wet season, especially in the southern half of the country. In the north, roads are merely tracks across the desert. The Chadian road network (42,000 km out of which, 6,200 km are primary roads) is made of 996 km of asphalted roads. A large majority of roads are flat. Fuel supplies can be erratic, even in the south-west of the country, and are expensive.
There are two main transport corridors to provide goods in Chad. One is coming form Benghazi Port in Libya, the other one from Douala in Cameroon.
Lybia Corridor : Road stretches from Benghazi to Kufra, Road stretches from Abeche to Kufra (eastern route), Road stretches from Abeche to Kufra (western route)
Cameroon Corridor : Ngaoundéré is the final station of the main railways line Douala Port. With a dry port developed around the railways station, it is the second logistics hub of the country after Douala. Presently, there are two main road corridors from Douala to Ngaoundéré:

Road stretches from Douala to NGaoundere via Garoua Boulai and Road stretch from Douala to Ngaoundere via Bafoussam (the West Road).

Rail
There is no railway service in Chad. But there is an existing railway network in Cameroon used to partly supply Chad (from Douala to Ngaoundere), using combined transport between port and Chadian border. The Cameroon rail system plays an important part in domestic freight transport. It is also the main link with the northern half of the country, Chad and the Central African Republic.

Aviation
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