Bishop to visit Vanuatu

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says she hopes to tour cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu within days.

"I'm hoping to visit Vanuatu over the weekend if there's a military transport plane going that I can get aboard because I want to see for myself that all that can be done is being done," she told reporters in Adelaide.

"I believe it will be a long-term effort.

"It was a pretty devastating cyclone and we'll continue to stand with our friend, our neighbour in the Pacific so they recover from this devastation."

There were reports on Friday that no food aid packages had been distributed among the estimated 67,000 households affected by Cyclone Pam on the island nation.

Ms Bishop said she wasn't aware of any Australian aid being held up.

"If there are problems with some of the NGOs then Australia of course would be prepared to assist," she said.