TRANSPORTATION

LOGISTICS - WHEAT
SOMALIA UKRAINE
Daniella Alsina
Laura Matias
General
Information

• Capital: Mogadishu
• Population: 15 million
• 2 million people live in the capital
• Official languages: Somali and
Arabic
• Somalia is a Federal Republic with
two legislative houses
• Actual president: Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud
• Somalia has the longest coastline
on Africa's mainland
Political
environment

• Until 1990 the legal system was

based largely on Islamic law; an
independent judiciary did not exist;
and human rights were frequently
violated
• In May 1991 one such alliance
declared the formation of the
independent Republic of
Somaliland in the north
• On August 20, 2012, was elected a
new president for the country
Transport

• 1,800 miles (2,900 km) of paved

roads are passable
• Mogadishu, Berbera, and
Kismaayo all have airports with
long runways
• Mogadishu, Berbera, and
Kismaayo have deep-water
harbours
• In rural areas camels, cattle, and
donkeys are still used for personal
transportation
Major trades routes
Relevants trades
agreements
Economy

• Somalia has the longest coastline

on Africa's mainland
• imports of goods total about $460
million per year
• Exports, which total about $270 million
annually
• Export commodities are livestock and
bananas
• Every family is directly or indirectly
involved in informal trading
Relevants trades
agreements
Imports and Exports

• “the most important sector of the

Somalian economy is agriculture, with
livestock raising surpassing crop
growing fourfold in value and earning
about three-fifths of Somalia's foreign
exchange”.
Risks

• “last year’s 53% of the food received in

Somalia (from donations) came from
Ukraine.” Now, as a result of the war, the
shipping ports in Ukraine are closed, and
Ukraine, even if they wanted to, is not in
a position to donate food.

• “United Nations (UN) projects that 4.6

million Somalians will not have enough
food by May 2022,”

• The Ukraine issue requires massive

attention from the international
community, and rightly so, but to the
detriment of the Somali people.
Mitigation

• United Nations Office for the

Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is
funding $47.1 to decrease the famine

• Exportations to other countries to

increase the economy and exchange
products
•
• the deposits of the clay mineral sepiolite,
or meerschaum, in south-central Somalia
are among the largest known reserves in
the world. Reserves of natural gas have
been found but have not been exploited