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.
For more information, please see the following link: 4.6 Sierra Leone Storage and Milling Company Contact List
Commercial Storage
Location |
Owner |
Available for Rent |
Capacity |
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 |
|
Container |
Flat |
Appears intact |
Freetown - Cline Town |
JIL |
Service only |
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 |
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 |
Capacity |
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 |
[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
Public Sector Storage
Location |
Ministry / Agency |
Use
Possibility |
Capacity |
Type [1] |
Access [2] |
Condition [3] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Freetown |
EPI |
n/a |
150 m³ |
Container |
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
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.