The Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) presented an Emergency Response Protocol to guarantee the continuity of foreign trade operations in the face of the potential impacts of the El Niño phenomenon (FEN).
"The El Niño phenomenon is already upon us, and its effects are beginning to be felt. Therefore, we must give urgency and emergency status to our scheduled activities," stated the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Rogers Valencia, during the fifth session of the Working Group for Monitoring and Early Warning of Foreign Trade, which he led accompanied by the Vice Minister of Foreign Trade, Sayuri Bayona.
The protocol includes an assistance network and contact points with public entities and private sector representatives to identify needs and coordinate solutions. The Ministries of Agrarian Development and Irrigation, Transport and Communications, Production, and Defense, among other competent institutions, will participate.
As part of this strategy, Mincetur monitors the main logistics corridors and over 60 export products in 15 regions, grouped into the Northwest, Central, and Southwest macro-regions. The objective is to timely detect risks that compromise production, transport, and the continuity of commercial operations.
The strategy comprises three components: preventive monitoring, emergency response, and promotion of economic reactivation. To this end, coordination is carried out with entities such as Senasa, Promperú, Sanipes, and ITP-Red CITE, in addition to incorporating information on the interventions of the Regional Emergency Operations Centers (COER).
Representatives from business associations such as Adex, Comex Perú, the National Society of Industries, the Lima Chamber of Commerce, Confiep, and AGAP, as well as transport associations and logistics operators, participated in the meeting.
With these measures, Mincetur seeks to strengthen the response capacity to the effects of the El Niño phenomenon and contribute to the continuity of the country's export chains.
