Update: Haiti Earthquake 2010

Update Jan 14 1000

AIRPORT status Port au Prince 
– Port au Prince Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport (TMTPP) (map)
– Cap Haitien International Airport (MTCH) (map)

• Currently visual landing / radio-assisted only;
• Air Traffic Control is responding to incoming aircraft, but with limited capabilities: max number of aircraft is 4 at a time;
• Runway usable;
• Availability of refuelling, cargo and aircraft handling equipment is not yet known;
• Airports are only open for humanitarian, military and private flights only, and not for commercial flights.

SEAPORT status Port au Prince

• The Port is currently non-operational with three cranes (one container crane, two gantry cranes) all destroyed;
• Quayside is badly damaged, with unknown debris under the water line;
• The Southern part of the port may be workable for discharge from self-geared vessels;
• A US Coastguard Vessel is currently making an assessment;