Madrid/The last rice load that reached the port of Havana has an unknown origin, but an imposing weight. Up to 19,000 tons, Channel Caribe announced in a report issued on Saturday in the news, while the Ministry of Internal Commerce placed in 16,000 tons of rice ready to download, to which 5,000 dust of the same cereal for animal feed were added.
The president of the Gemar Group explained that the dockers work to get 1,000 tons every day at the Andrés González Lines terminal until reaching 11,000 for about ten days, if the forecasts are met. This burden is destined for the provinces that range from Pinar del Río to Matanzas. Once the operation is completed, the ship will go to Cienfuegos, where it will leave the rest of the product to take other territories, including Youth Island.
Meanwhile, the report tells, in the eastern zone one works in the same direction with another ship from which nothing has been specified, but a cabotage will come to the port of Vita for the basic basket of Holguín and another, which was prepared this Sunday, bound for the port of Níquero (in Granma) and the transfer of goods to Baracoa, Guantánamo.
The video emphasizes that, distributed the product, it will be directed to the different points of sale and that there is coordination between all the provinces so that this occurs. “This is one of the links of the Puerto-Transport-Internal Economy chain. Its priority, imports of food acquired by the Cuban government and donations from friendly countries that arrive in the nation,” says a voice in OFF.
“The truth is that we have fallen as low. Simplist news as these have made them achievements of the revolution”
“The truth is that we have fallen as low. Simplist news as these have made them achievements of the revolution. A shame. Maintaining a country based on donations is to condemn the population to the greatest poverty,” a user reacted. Although it has not been said if this load was donated, some of the largest that have been recently received from Vietnam and China, who have declared the donation and, occasionally, made ceremonies of receipt of the ship or the product.
Therefore, most of the comments that from the social networks of several agencies talked about the news were in the same line. “Misery as news is sad. The normal thing is not this type of news. This should be a normal routine in the day to day and not something to highlight,” said a commentator.
Among the reactions are dozens of comments asking when the product will arrive at the winery, since many provinces accumulate up to three months of delays, while in the MSMEs and markets prices range between 180 or 280 pesos La Libra.
Cuba reaped about 80,000 tons of rice in 2024, just 11% of what it consumes, which is why it has been forced to pay significant amounts of money when the cereal did not arrive as a donation. Countries like Uruguay, Canada or Colombia sell the grain to the island, although there have been few cases in which ships were waiting for several days due to problems with payment. According to the authorities, rice import spending is the most substantial when it comes to food, around 300 million dollars a year.
