Logistics problems maintain a lot between 400 and 500 tons of gray marble in the patios of the company producing the Youth Islandwithout still avizore response from the authorities.
According to a note repeated on the local station website Radio Caribemore than 300 huacales with listing production are found in the courtyards of the company Marble Isla, which is equivalent to its production in the last months of May and June.
A similar alert had appeared on Pinera television, in reference to other shipments stranded in the port of the territory for several months, waiting to be transported to its destinations.
The means that the situation “creates a badly precedent” and it lies the entity’s reputation before its clients that hire production and cannot access it in the estimated time.
In turn, he points out that the company Mármoles Isla has the potential to become an export pole, which could open access to the necessary currencies to renew its production technology with more than four decades of exploitation.
The industry aims to diversify its assortments and make a leap in production, which implies quadruple the thousand meters that it can chop currently, which could impact on the salary improvement of its workers. However, for this you need to acquire the necessary machinery that, for now, does not have due to lack of financing.
According to data reflected by a reportage of the newspaper Rebel youth95 % of the marble pieces that leave the quarries of the island of Youth are destined for Havana, and the rest is used in local works.
In that sense, the publication draws the attention of those who decide the priorities of the products that are moved by sea to the capital, due to the importance of this item for the necessary economic and social growth of the territory.
Canteras with history
The marble quarries characterize the island of Youth since the last century, when the first deposits were discovered in 1834 by a French gold search engine, surname Chateaux, in the Sierra de Horse.
According to the report of Rebel youththe first exploitation attempts date from 1845, along with the installation of the first steam machines on the island to benefit marble in workshops of which only ruins are preserved.
The predominant marble on the island of youth is gray (pearl and siboney varieties), although veins in pink, black and white colors have also been found.
The use of gray color has been usually used for many years in constructive works of a social nature in the country, such as hospitals, funerals or police stations, among others.
It also stands out its presence in emblematic works such as the José Martí Revolution Square and the Havana Bay Tunnel.
The geologist José Tomás Córdova explained in a documentary on the subject – and to which the medium refers – that in the overseas territory marble reserves are abundant, such as to be exploited for centuries.
The expert encrypted that the availability of Siboney Gray marble was located four years ago around 348 thousand cubic meters, while that of the pearl variety would be over 210 thousand.
