Bolivia Storage Assessment

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4.6 Bolivia Storage and Milling Company Contact List

GLCSC LCA BOLIVIA Private Storage 140930

Commercial Storage

Access Capacity to Storage Facilities, for lease contract.

Storage Used by Humanitarian Organizations

Generally, humanitarian organizations have small to medium-sized storage areas in the national territory, spaces where they handle supplies they have committed to serve their regular activities. When their inventories increase to respond to emergencies, whether for local purchases or imports, they look for storage spaces in municipalities, local governments or they temporarily rent regional spaces, when they directly manage their facilities, so they do not have extra spaces to share.

The concept of Voucher is being applied lately, so the affected family can directly pick up products from pre-determined trade institutions, and avoid costs of storage and warehouse management outside from the Service Center of the organizations.

As organizations demand can be satisfied by local market, there is no large storage spaces for strategic goods.

Public Sector Storage

The Government has created 2 institutions to ensure the stabilization of prices in the market in the country, by investing in infrastructure, storage and collection. Currently WFP has signed a Cooperation Agreement with the Government, where la Empresa de Apoyo a la Producción Agropecuaria EMAPA e Insumos Bolivia (the Bolivia Company's Support to the Public Agricultural Production and Supplies) is part of the national counterpart.

Foodstuffs stored strategically are corn in grain, flour, rice and oil, which at a critical time as in an emergency, humanitarian organizations could have access to the purchase of such products from EMAPA.

GLCSC LCA BOLIVIA Almacenes EMAPA 140930

Cold Chain

In the country the cold chain is not fully implemented; the companies that market pharmaceutical products and meat have cold chambers according to the capacity of their activity, with reduced infrastructure and little ability to offer surplus spaces to share or rent.

The best offers are vehicles deployed with refrigeration systems, for national and international transport systems. There is also a range of logistics operator companies which have areas with facilities for refrigerated containers.

In the public sector, only the Ministry of Health has adequate infrastructure with control of temperature for the storage of strategic medicine and to supply to Hospitals and Health Centers, where it does not share spaces due to sector policies.

GLCSC LCA BOLIVIA Cold Transporters 140930