In Santiago de Cuba they download a liquefied gas ship at the International Breakfish Father Brothers Days, which must supply customers from the provinces of the east of the country.
According to Granmait is the first ship with this product that arrives this year to the Bay of the Province “to meet the demands.”
They are streamlined, add the medium, the operations of reception, storage, filling and distribution of the so -called “balloons” towards the points of sale of the territories, for which “the working day is extended both in the gas plant and in the own points of sale “
In the middle of this month, the liquefied gas company informed its customers of Havana, Artemisa and Mayabeque that “before the inventory deficit” of liquefied gas, the sale service to the population would be affected.
The difficulties with the “balita gas” have been recurring in Cuba in recent years, in the midst of a long economic crisis that has the energy sector as one of the most affected.
“Partial” relief for the crisis with the “balita gas” in Cuba
Impagos, mainly motivated by the financing problems that the island suffers and the effects of US sanctions, have caused periodic crises with the supply of liquefied gas in Cuba, as with other basic products.
This has resulted in long lines-even days-, re-sale of bullets in the black market and the increase in the price of energy alternatives such as charcoal.
To the above, it is added that the current crisis takes place at a time when the electrical crisis has been sharpened, with constant blackouts, which makes it impossible to use electricity to cook and even more complex an issue as sensitive as the cooking of food .
