Peru

Luis of the Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group posts this:

Please find a quick translation from Spanish as well as the original news release from the Peruvian Exporters Association. It has already been a day but news just seem to be trickling in now as to the extent of the tragedy.
http://www.adexperu.org.pe/notas/Engnotas.htm
Concern about fresh product exports from affected zones
Thursday, 16 of August. - The president of the Exportadores Association (ADEX), Jose Luis Silva Martinot requested the installation of a portable, pre-fabricated bridge (i.e.Bailey bridge) in a damaged stretch of the highway between Lima and Ica so that humanitarian aid can be sent while simultaneously avoiding the disruption of products shipments to the capital destined for the internal market and for export.
"The request is that the government install a Bailey bridge in the damaged section of the highway so that aid can be sent in and perishable products can leave the Ica, Palpa and Nazca agro-exporting zones", said Silva Martinot to the Invertia news portal.
The head of the exporting association warned that if the government does not install the portable bridge "this could prevent export product from arriving at terminals and international markets". Also, he pleaded with lumber manufacturers to send wood to the zones shaken by the earthquake to construct houses for displaced families in Pisco, Chicha or Ica. Silva said that some agricultural and confectionary exporters in the Sur Chico (Chincha and Pisco) suffered material damage such as roof collapse and de-calibration of machines. "In Pueblo Nuevo, Chinchas, he regretted that the houses of exporting company workers were also are damaged".
The president of ADEX president said that the association is communicating with local affiliates in the most affected zones to know more about the real impact of the earthquake, as well as to evaluate how to assist the hundreds of Peruvians that have been affected. He said that the association is coordinating a campaign to take medicines, clothes and potable water to affected areas. "The campaign: Exportador solidario, our aid can make a difference", will take aid to the victims. This is a moment in which all Peruvians must stand up and show solidarity" he finalized.