AREQUIPA, Peru – The passenger transportation services provided by the National Bus company in Cuba have been restored. reported on Facebook the Minister of Transportation on the Island, Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila.
The service had been paralyzed due to the passage of Hurricane Rafael through western Cuba last Wednesday.
As part of the recovery of the sector, the minister said that public passenger transportation in Havana is being restored “gradually,” although there are roads that use different routes that are not passable.
Likewise, he highlighted that since 2:00 PM this Friday, passenger transportation through the Bay of Havana was restored and the buses operate normally. national trains.
“Since yesterday (Thursday) the port of Havana has been operating, where food and other cargo that were in its warehouses were protected. Yesterday, about 100 tons of rice were transported from them,” says the owner.
Currently, the Geocuba company is working on reestablishing navigation signals in ports where there were impacts from Hurricane Rafael, including Surgidero de Batabanó, key to reestablishing navigation between Batabanó and the Isle of Youth.
“This is estimated to be possible on Sunday, with the arrival of the Perseverancia ferry, which did not suffer any damage from the hurricane as it successfully took refuge in the Siguanea cove,” adds Rodríguez Dávila.
Impact of Rafael in the west of the Island
The Cuban regime admitted this Thursday that so far they have registered around 461 total and partial collapses in Havana and thousands of evacuees due to the passage of the hurricane. Raphael through western Cuba.
Yanet Hernández Pérez, governor of the Cuban capital, informed the press that around 461 landslides, 495 fallen poles with more than 100 transformers, and damage to the gas infrastructure occurred in the province.
Likewise, he commented that the recovery work includes the collection of waste and the restart of operations at the José Martí international airport, as well as other air terminals, including Varadero in the province of Matanzas.
The most visible effects in the western region correspond to the fall of trees and the large amount of debris from total and partial collapses on electrical and communications infrastructure.
For his part, the first colonel Luis Ángel Macareño, second chief of the Civil Defense General Staff, said that they evacuated some 218,300 people in the country and no deaths were reported.
