2.6 Sierra Leone Storage Assessment | Digital Logistics Capacity Assessments

Commercial Storage
Storage Used by Humanitarian Organizations
Public Sector Storage
Cold Chain

Storage facilities are limited in Sierra Leone. It is possible to find them in Freetown but it becomes more difficult to locate inside the country. During the Ebola Response, WFP established different warehousing facilities in the country with Port Loko as the main hub. These storage facilities were to be used by all the humanitarian actors in the frame of the Ebola Response.

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Commercial Storage

Location	Owner	Available for Rent	Capacity mt / m² / m³	Type [1]	Access [2]	Condition [3]
Kenema	Tropical Farms Limited	Yes for 400 m² (1,600 m² rented to Red Cross)	2,000 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - Cline Town	JIL	Service only	1,000 m²	Container	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - Cline Town	JIL	Service only	1,000 m²	Open Storage	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - Cline Town	JIL	Service only	450 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - Cline Town	JIL	Service only	200 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - Cline Town	JIL	Service only	170 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Kenema	JIL	Service only	750 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Kenema	JIL	Service only	750 m²	Concrete	Flat	Under Construction/repair
Freetown – Cline Town	JIL	n/a	13,700 m³	Concrete	Flat	Under Construction/repair
Freetown - Goderitch	Mohamed Wurie	Yes	500 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - Brookfields	Mohamed Wurie	Yes	800 m³	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - Kingtom	Simon Wilson	Yes	1,533 m³	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - DownTown	Simon Wilson	Yes	504 m³	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown – Cline Town	Simon Wilson	Yes	3,360 m³	Concrete	Flat	Under Construction/repair
Freetown - Kissy	Simon Wilson	Yes	6,300 m³	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Kenema	Fawaz Building Materials	Yes	2,700 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - No 6 Main Motor Road Waterloo	Gibrill Sheriff Kamara Contact: Osman Conteh	Yes	125 mt / 111 m² 271 m³	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown - Palm Kernel Oil Mill, Wellington Industrial Area, opposite PMB junction	Sierra Leone Insurance company and Sign Africa	Yes	1,769 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact

[1] Warehouse Type: Open storage, container, rub-hall, silo, concrete, other, unspecified
[2] Warehouse Access: Raised-siding, flat
[3] Warehouse condition: Appears intact, appears damaged, under construction/repair

Storage Used by Humanitarian Organizations

The major humanitarian organizations store their items in Freetown. The main preference is to run their own facilities. The largest organization storing items in the country is WFP. During the Ebola Crisis, WFP provided storage facilities to both the humanitarian organizations and the different government entities. The lack of adequate commercial and public storage facilities was surmounted by providing Mobile Storage Unit (Wiikhalls/Rub halls).

Location	Organization	Sharing Possibility (Yes / No)	Capacity mt / m² / m³	Type [1]	Access [2]	Condition [3]
Portshed IV	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	5,000 mt / 2500 m²	concrete	flat	Good
Portshed IVA	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	5,000 mt / 2500 m²	concrete	flat	Good
Kissy -1	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	450 mt / 325 m²	Concrete	Flat	Good
Kissy -2	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	450 mt / 655 m²	Concrete	Raised-siding	Good
Kissy -3	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	500 mt / 787 m²	Concrete	Flat	Good
Kissy	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	1,950 mt / 720 m²	Rub-hall	Raised-siding	Appears damaged
Makeni	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	3,000 mt / 1700 m²	Rub-hall	Raised-siding	Good
Makeni	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	500 mt / 320 m²	Rub-hall	Raised-siding	Appears damaged
Port Loko	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	1,500 mt / 787 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Kenema	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	2,300 mt / 525 m²	Concrete	Raised-siding	Appears intact
Kenema	WFP	Yes (upon available space)	2,600 mt / 960 m²	Rub-hall	Raised-siding	Appears intact
Freetown	UNICEF	Yes (upon available space)	5,583 m²	Concrete	Flat	Appears intact
Kenema	UNICEF	Yes (upon available space)	52 mt / 56 m² / 135 m³	Container	Flat	Appears intact
Makeni	UNICEF	Yes (upon available space)	52 mt / 56 m² / 135 m³	Container	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown	Handicap	n/a	26 mt / 23 m² / 67 m³	Container	Flat	Appears intact
Freetown	IOM	n/a	26 mt / 23 m² / 67 m³	Container	Flat	Appears intact

Public Sector Storage

Location	Ministry / Agency	Use Possibility (Yes / No)	Capacity mt / m² / m³	Type [1]	Access [2]	Condition [3]
Freetown	EPI	n/a	150 m³	Container	Flat	Appears intact

Cold Chain

The main option for cold chain lies with the Expanded Programme for Immunization (EPI). EPI has sufficient cold chain storage capacity on a national level to store the vaccines and different medicines, but lacks normal adequate facilities to store medicine and other materials. For the moment they use containers as storage facilities. The main challenge in cold chain resides in the districts and peripheries due mostly to the lack of stable electricity supply. Ideally, EPI would plan to build 2 walk-in cold rooms in Bo to cover the southern region and in Makeni to cover the eastern region, but without any continuity plan and the shortage in electricity supplies, makes it impossible to launch such a needed project. More than 50% of the solar refrigerators disseminated in the country are not functioning.

Location	Organisation / Owner	Type [1]	Cooling / Power [2]	Quantity	Total Capacity m³	Condition
Freetown	EPI	Cold Room Positive	Compression	2	40 m³	Good
Freetown	EPI	Cold Room Negative	Compression	1	20 m³	Good
Whole country	EPI	Refrigerators	Solar	400	~ 40 m³	<50% not functioning

[1] Cold Room Positive, Cold Room Negative, Refrigerator, Freezer,

[2] Compression, Absorption, Solar, Other, unspecified