Madrid/The joys soon ended on board the mexican catamaran V2V Empresswhich covers alone the route from Batabanó to Nueva Gerona, on the Isle of Youth while the Perseverance undergoes scheduled maintenance. After a happy report, published in the local newspaper Victoryin which the amenities Regarding the new vehicle, the bitter side has begun to prevail since it became known that the cargo capacity is more limited and each passenger can only carry 20 kilos.
The warnings came from the users themselves and were collected by the Minister of Transportation, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, who, following his custom, wrote a long post in Facebook to report the situation.
“The company Transcargo, belonging to the Maritime Port Business Group (Gemar), is in charge of a new procedure to manage the transport of unaccompanied cargo and luggage,” said the official, who pointed out that an alternative is being sought, which will come into force next Monday the 20th, for those who exceed the limit, although only for unaccompanied cargo.
“Travelers to or from the Isle of Youth will have several offices to manage their unaccompanied luggage. On the Isle of Youth, the service will be available at the Transcargo offices and those at the port of Nueva Gerona,” said Rodríguez Dávila. Each additional kilo, up to 10, will cost 10 pesos, so the maximum allowable will involve a surcharge of 100.
Each additional kilo, up to 10, will cost 10 pesos, so the maximum allowable will mean a surcharge of 100
Regarding commercial cargo, the minister specifies, there will be no changes with respect to the previous model and the patana that already worked with him Perseverance. “In Havana, two service points have been set up for travelers. One of them is located in the Travel Agency office on Avenida 26 and the other in the Batabanó Terminal. This will allow anyone, even those who do not use the official buses to reach the port of Batabanó, to dispatch their excess luggage,” reports the official.
Those who use this service have ten days to collect what they sent at the Transcargo offices, although everything will depend on “possible delays due to force majeure, such as adverse weather conditions.” Rodríguez Dávila arrived just in time to nullify an opinion article that hours later he published the diary Victoryin which the problem that arose was presented to the minister, without knowing that the announcement would arrive before the dissemination of the text.
“When a friend leaves, he leaves an empty space that cannot be filled by the arrival of another friend,” wrote the author of this text, in which he regrets that the V2V Empress It has “perhaps even more tourist appeal, but it is not the same. It does not fill the space of the friend who left.”
The editor quoted a self-employed friend who was displeased with the situation, since he previously carried the load on his person and the new regulations force him to do so through the idiots, “subordinated to another level of decisions where it is determined what has priority, what to transport or not on the next trip. This means a lot of risk, you can stay in Batabanó with your merchandise thawing and without knowing how or when to bring it,” he maintains.
According to his story, the self-employed man has a two-day trip with his wife to the capital to bring merchandise for about 70,000 pesos – transportation, food and lodging – to which now we must add the load that he can no longer bring. “How to lower prices under these conditions? I wonder and you may wonder the same thing, a true touchstone in all this scaffolding,” says the author.
“And why the solutions to a problem that could have been solved before the V2V docked in a Cuban port?”
The article points out the Transcargo alternative that the minister announced, although pointing out that its high prices – 187 pesos per kilo – were always an inconvenience to lower prices. “Reality requires optimizing the use of these nonsense and Transcargo. But, in addition, it is necessary to search and find other solutions. The current ones help, but they have not yet achieved significant progress. It is about lowering prices at all costs. And achieving it… is already taking its time,” he says.
Added to the concern expressed by the self-employed friend of the editor is one that is not resolved with the post of the minister: that of those who claim to be worried about relatives who visit them and will only be there for a few days or who return from international missions loaded with things that they will not be able to bring due to lack of foresight. “And why do the solutions to a problem that could have been solved before the V2V Will it dock in a Cuban port?”, a good majority asks.
