Our response capacity
To ensure a rapid and effective response to emergencies, PIRAC operates several humanitarian warehouses, notably in Guadeloupe and Martinique. PIRAC manages a network of six warehouses across the French territories of the Lesser Antilles.
This network of warehouses allows us to consider different types of emergency response depending on the existing transport vectors and the impacted area. This also limits the risk of impact on a warehouse in the event of a hurricane and allows us to maintain an operational response capacity at all times.
The main facilities include the Regional Humanitarian Warehouse in Guadeloupe, inaugurated in December 2025, with a storage capacity of 4,000 emergency kits (one kit supporting a household of five people), and the warehouse in Martinique, which holds 500 kits. Marie-Galante, La Désirade, Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy also have storage facilities in the form of tropicalized shipping containers, specially adapted and secured to withstand hurricanes and earthquakes.
PIRAC is also supporting the renovation of several warehouses in Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
This humanitarian stock, which complies with Red Cross Movement standards, enables volunteers from each beneficiary National Red Cross Society in the region to be familiar with the available equipment and to optimize its distribution during emergency operations.
The type of material is divided into 2 main categories:
Basic necessities (non-food)
Water treatment equipment, production of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene awareness
WHAT GOODS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE PIRAC WAREHOUSES?
Family kitchen kits
Tool kits for the reconstruction and reinforcement of houses
Hygenic kit
Reinforced tarpaulins
Cleaning kits for houses
Mosquito nets
Blankets
Mobile water treatment units
A mobile desalination unit
Mobile chemical and bacteriological analysis laboratories
Motor pumps and generators
Water storage units from 1 to 10 m3
Water distribution ramps
Buckets and jerry cans
Material for the installation of latrines
OUR MEANS OF ACTION
In order to deploy these humanitarian stocks to respond to an emergency, PIRAC is constantly developing and strengthening its strategic and operational partnerships with various logistical actors.
Indeed, following a disaster, one of the key factors of the emergency response is time.
It is essential to be able to project humanitarian stocks and human resources rapidly as close as possible to the affected areas. For this purpose, PIRAC evaluates all means of projection (air, sea, road) proposed by its partners:
Armed Forces in the West Indies (maritime resources)
Armed Forces in French Guiana (airborne resources)
Civilian security (helicopters)
Foundations (Airbus / CMA-CGM)
Private sectors (CMA-CGM / Bolloré logistics…)
Associations (Sea Shepherd, yachting associations…)
