Hunger continues to be a major problem in Port au Prince, but it's not primarily because there's a shortage of food - it's because the systems to distribute the tons of food sent in by international donors are still so chaotic and confused. Case in point: there aren't enough forklifts at the Port au Prince airport to unload all the incoming planes.

Mark Bonnell, the man in charge of handling all incoming flights for the United Nations' World Food Program, told me it had taken him half the night a couple of days ago to get a plane full of food unloaded because he couldn't find a forklift. The US Air Force, which has essentially taken control of the airport, usually unloads incoming planes, but their forklifts are too big for smaller planes like the Antonov 12 Bonnell had to deal with that night.

Bonnell usually hires local laborers to take cargo off those planes by hand - not exactly the speediest process at the best of times. But there's a 6 pm curfew in the Haitian capital, so by the time this particular plane landed, all of Bonnell's workers had gone home. That left Bonnell, the man representing the world's biggest relief organization, literally pounding the pavement to try to borrow a small forklift from one of the other organizations based at the airport. He had to do all his scrounging in person; the WFP hasn't yet provided him with a working phone.

Just to add to the clutter at the airport, there's also the broken-down airplane in the photo above belonging to something called Planet Airways taking up space at one end of the tarmac.

While we're on the subject - here's a photo of the Ferrari of forklifts, a snazzy number brought in by the Swiss Red Cross: