The large amount of stone needed for the construction of the Mayan Train route in Mexico will force Cuba to exploit a second quarry, in this case that of El Cuero, also in Cienfuegos and with similar characteristics to that of Arriete.
The rock in this area is also very hard, more than 1,200 kilos per square centimeter “and the additional advantage of being located closer to the port, with the consequent savings in fuel for transportation,” he explained to the local newspaper on Tuesday. September 5 Vladimir Jorge Fuentes, general director of the Cienfuegos Construction Materials Company (EMCC).
The medium dedicates a extensive note raised as an ode to a project that is presented as careful, highly specialized and qualified workers and full of satisfaction; a text that arrives a month after transcended the breaches of Havana in the transport of the rajón.
The media dedicates an extensive note raised as an ode to a project that is presented as careful, highly specialized and qualified workers and full of satisfaction
The immense construction work of the Mayan Train – a 1,460-kilometer railway that will connect the main tourist cities of the Yucatan peninsula – requires the shipment of more than 1,400,000 cubic meters of rajón, an export endorsed by Andrés Manuel López himself. Obrador, from Cienfuegos, which has this stone of volcanic origin and blue outline.
For this, it is necessary not only to develop the quarry, from drilling to blasting, but also to provide a method of hauling large volumes of stone to the warehouse in the port of Cienfuegos, which is 24 kilometers away. According to the provincial media, 3,000 tons are transported every day, but they are expected to increase.
To date, accurate September 5, 6,000 cubic meters of stone came out of the Arriete quarry, but in December, with the rajón that goes to Mexico, 70,000 began to be extracted and in March, when the peak is expected, it can reach 200,000 a month, if all it goes well. For this it has been necessary to mobilize human resources from other provinces, in addition to material means, reviews the text, which delights in the effort and detail that the work requires.
“This is a job of great technical precision to achieve the parameters in the dimension of the pit, while constituting a great risk due to the use of explosives, he says, but we have a force of experience and specialized in the matter,” he adds.
The newspaper details the high technology, the long hours and the “excellent” mechanisms, which are carried out without neglecting, they continue, the “attention to man”. “We have no complaints of any kind, acknowledges Alcántara Mártinez, both my colleagues and I feel well cared for, both professionally and humanly. And as the process progresses, living and working conditions are better, including food,” explains one of the workers. His opinion is endorsed by a colleague, a backhoe operator, who celebrates the working and salary conditions. “So far I’m doing very well, despite the fact that the days are intense with a fair payment for the results of what we do. Of course, we are satisfied with the attention.”
The engineer Jorge Fuentes explains that deposits that were flooded in Arriete have been recovered and that as of this February they will also be able to be exploited
The engineer Jorge Fuentes explains that deposits that were flooded in Arriete have been recovered and that as of this February they will also be able to be exploited.
The note dedicates another laudatory section to transportation, which is carried out from Zone Two of O’Bourke, in the port of Cienfuegos. A ship with 17,000 cubic meters of stone departed from there at the time of the report and, although in this case the delays suffered by the stone are addressed, it also delves into the “close coordination”, the operation “as the mechanisms of a clock” and the great prevention in labor safety.
“We have been very demanding in that order, and to date we have not had to regret any accident at work, despite the fact that, as you can see, it is a job of great tension and danger due to its magnitude,” says Rennier Reyna Arévalo, head of transportation of this cargo. The testimony of the Colombian Oscar Bustamante Álvarez, from the maritime company, is also offered, who extols the good understanding with the Cuban side and downplays the initial delays.
“And while the rail and stone road advances through the states of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo, with new jobs and remarkable social well-being for the Aztec people, here from the south-central part of Cuba, more than 150 workers and a considerable number of teams and means do not rest to, from the rear, guarantee the stone material that will later be processed as ballast for the iron path of the Mayan Train”, concludes the report that, after such a hymn to excellences, no leaves a single line for the environmental impact that is expected as a consequence of the work both in Cuba and in Mexico, where the train project has been highly criticized.
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