MIAMI, United States. — Vicente de la O Levy, Minister of Energy and Mines of the Cuban regime, revealed this Thursday that the distribution of the salt that must be delivered to Cubans is interrupted due to transportation problems.
The official explained in space Round table that the low technical state of the railway boxes that transport salt has meant that more than 9,000 tons of this product are found in warehouses in the country.
According to O Levy, this situation has affected the deficit for consumers, although he made it clear that there is salt to deliver to the population.
“There is a team of people thinking about how to modify the conditions of the salt flats, with the objective that the trains enter and can load on plates, not on boxes, and thus fill the containers,” said the minister in a fragment of his intervention.
At the moment, those in charge of carrying out the task have 14 railway plates of the 100 that are expected to exist to be able to move the salt in the containers.
O Levy —appointed to the post of Minister of Energy and Mines in October 2022 to replace Liván Arronte Cruz— reported that a few days ago, thanks to “a joint operation with the Revolutionary Armed Forces” (FAR), they moved through by sea about 300 tons for the municipalities of Havana.
In Cuba there are nine basic business units (UEB) that make up the Salt Company (Ensal), an entity whose social responsibility is the production, extraction, processing, transportation and commercialization of salt in all its assortments and derivatives.
Most of the salt production in Cuba is in charge of the Guantánamo UEB, which must guarantee around 46% of national consumption annually.
