Shipping Containers

The staff will spend 60% daily of the working time in conducting physical verification and updating them in the Galileo Inventory Management system. 20% of daily work will be for inspection of new assets received by R&I and data updating, 10% will be used for Board of Survey, disposal activities and de-recognition of asset, whiles 10% will be used in managing staff list in Galileo, checking in/out and data analysis as well as liaison with SAUs and other stakeholders for data update and accuracy. Also prepares weekly, monthly, annually and financial Year-end inventory report as well as statistics on accountability of assets.

The Mission shipped out COE using UN owned containers as against shippers owned containers in 2010. The intention was to ensure the COE were well packed and secured for safe delivery to the troop contributing countries and to eliminate the cost of paying for idle assets of 50% of the reimbursable amount to the respective TCCs. These containers are reflected in the missions KPI as un-located and inappropriately recorded in the Galileo Inventory Management System (IMS). The process of ensuring these containers are deleted from the Mission IMS has become an issue of concern.

It will be uneconomical for the mission to repatriate these containers if even they are located based on the data provided by MOVCON attached as Annex "C". The costs of repatriation of these containers are: Dakar to Entebbe - $106,575, Delhi to Entebbe - $224,721, Montevideo to Entebbe - $96,156 and Sucre to Entebbe - $155,050 which all total $582,502. The total depreciated value of these containers at the date of write-off was $89,423.80. Even this value cannot be obtained when sold, bearing in mind that they have all passed their life expectancy and can be expected to deteriorate even further.