The Governor of Puerto Rico says there are thousands of containers of Hurricane relief supplies that are unable to reach storm victims because the trucking industry on the island has essentially shut down.

According to The Wall Street Journal, ships began delivering shipping containers full of hurricane relief supplies on Saturday, September 23rd but so far, the more than 3,000 containers are just sitting in port with no way to transport them.

“That part of logistics from our terminal, that supply chain has been interrupted,” said Jose Ayala, Vice president of Puerto Rico Services, a Florida based ship-operating company.

“The biggest challenge is how you can move the cargo. The cargo is here. The people of Puerto Rico should not have any fear that there is not going to be food or medicine on the island,” Ayala continued.

On Monday, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello made a plea for help in recovering from the hurricane, stating that the “devastation is vast.”

“It’s pretty ugly out there….” Continued Ayala.

“There is damage to the trucking infrastructure, to the distributors, to the supermarkets, to the roads. And then, if your infrastructure is not so damaged, and you can get a driver to the truck, there is no fuel to move the equipment.”

“We have been talking to truck drivers and they say if it is challenging around San Juan now, imagine driving a truck with 40-foot container attached,” Ayala continued.

“It’s impossible.”

“DHS’s current assessment is that there is sufficient numbers of U.S.-flagged vessels to move commodities to Puerto Rico,” said David Lapan, spokesman for the US Department of Homeland Security.

“The limitation is going to be port capacity to offload and transfer cargo, not vessel availability.”

Diana Emmanuelli, who evacuated Puerto Rico and fled to Chicago just before hurricane Maria, says that due to the lack power and infrastructure, communication is poor, and the government is finding it difficult to contact truck drivers, reported WGN Chicago.

“The chain of custody down there right now isn’t being determined as quickly as it should be because of the lack of communication,” Emanuelli said.

“At the airport, there’s tons of aid coming in right now as well but it’s just they can’t distribute it because lack of infrastructure and communications,” she continued.

Ayala says that, despite the treacherous roads and lack of infrastructure, Puerto Rico Services is still trying to rally truckers together and get the more than 3,000 containers full of medicine, food, and other essentials, out to those that need it.