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The 12 ocean containers Crowley Maritime managed to get to shore at Port-au-Prince’s crippled port late last month provided only a small share of the enormous relief supplies needed in Haiti, but that the goods got there at all may make a huge difference.

The Jan. 22 delivery of the containers through an experimental ship-to-shore operation called lightering was a critical logistics and transport landmark in getting aid to the nation crushed by last month’s earthquake.

For aid groups trying to rush in relief to stem a spreading humanitarian disaster, the damage to roads, buildings, the cranes and piers at the country’s main port and to the basic distribution networks proved daunting. Although dedicated relief groups such as U.K.-based Oxfam and cooperative agreements such as the American Logistics Aid Network have sought to establish systems ahead of natural disasters, the devastation in Haiti from the 7.0 earthquake January 12 was a grim reminder of the overwhelming physical challenges involved in the most mundane of operations, such as delivering bottles of water.

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