In recent days two news related to the public transport In Cuba: the delivery of a donation from China for the rehabilitation of buses of Havana and the next circulation of boobies propelled by biogas in the Matanzero municipality of Martí.
The donation, of which already had previously informedwas officially delivered in an act carried out in the Bus Production Company Evelio Prieto Guillama, Caisa, of the Artemiseño municipality of Guanajay, where the Havana bus are rehabilitated.
In total, a hundred vehicles currently out of service will benefit from Chinese donation, which includes engines, tires and batteries, as well as spare parts, tools and maintenance equipment, according to The newspaper Granma.
Before the arrival of the donation, these rigid and 40 articulated bus – 60
IOSvany Frías Álvarez, director of that company, said that the parts and parts received will be distributed among the different productive processes: mechanical, electrical assembly and quality control, and that once the structural stage is completed, the interior of each unit will be reconditioned “so that they will have the capabilities with which they began to work”.
The manager pointed out that the rehabilitation will have a rhythm of five monthly bus, so it is projected to deliver between 40 and 50 units before the 2025 closing.
Previously, Frías Álvarez himself had calculated that, due to the complexities of the work, the first 20 bus would not be ready until the end of the year.
China’s donation comes to the rescue of public transport in Havana
Biogas Guaguas in Matanzas
At the same time, this week it was known that five buses propelled by biomethane or refined biogas will begin to function soon in the Matanzo municipality of Martí.
Las Guaguas, of the Chinese brand Yutong, must work in the different communities of that territory and, in particular, will serve “depending on the proximity where we have hospitals such as Columbus, Cárdenas and Matanzas”, As he said to Yumurí TV The mayor of the municipality, Geovanny Castanedo Larena.
According to the report, the initiative is part of the project “Global Action for Climate Change in the Municipality of Martí towards a sustainable neutral coal development model”.
Its coordinator, Sobeida María Reyes Martínez, explained to the environment that “the first objective is the cleaning of the biogas to turn it into biomethane and this power compress and take it to public transport” of the municipality, whose population exceeds 22 thousand people.
The biogas will be provided by the pig units of the territory, from the installation of membrane biodigesters, and then refine in a plant currently in assembly, the report refers.
The project has a cost of 33 million pesos – within them in euros – and is funded by the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Ministry of Economy and Planning.
As part of it, more than 13 kilometers of Martí’s main roads are also paved, which, according to the report, the initiative combines the commitment to energy sovereignty with the resolution of local needs and the use of resources from the territory.
