(EFE).- The state-owned Cuba-Petroleum Union (Cupet) company reported this Wednesday that there is a fuel deficit on the island due to “operational logistics difficulties” and “a demand higher than usual.”
In a brief statementthe company explained that it has “the support of specialized teams from other organizations” to transport “by road” from the refinery in the central province of Cienfuegos “to the entire country.”
The press release does not clarify the amount of fuel available or when it will return to normal. In cities like Havana, an increase in queues at service centers had already been noted in previous days.
The media also warned that the provincial authorities detected the theft of more than 1,000 cylinders of liquefied gas with the “probable complicity of some workers.”
In this regard, the Government of the capital indicated that the situation in the province is due to problems of “transportation, the increase in demand, and the increase in the time consumed by the purchase operations” in the establishments, according to what was collected on Tuesday by the official newspaper Tribune of Havana.
The media also warned that the provincial authorities detected the theft of more than 1,000 cylinders of liquefied gas with the “probable complicity of some workers.”
Last March, Havana, as well as other cities, suffered days with long lines at gas stations due to the lack of fuel that caused the lack of tank trucks in the province of Matanzas.
The supply problems are added to others such as the shortage of food and medicine, inflation and power cuts, all aggravated by the serious economic crisis that the Island has been going through for two years as a result of the pandemic, mismanagement and the tightening of US sanctions.
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