The mountains of materiel may not reach storm survivors for days. “Puerto Rico is the biggest challenge of all of them. It’s obliterated their ports, their airports, their infrastructure, their electricity, and supplies need to go by boats. Domestic firms have moved 9,500 containers to Puerto Rico, according to the American Maritime Partnership. At least one foreign tanker that left Louisiana last week took advantage of the existing waiver to help Maria victims in Puerto Rico, according to shipping and chartering data compiled by Bloomberg.

Source: National Post September 28, 2017 15:00 UTC