The PC-400 barge, arriving from the Bay of Santiago de Cuba, docked for the third time this year at the port of Baracoa, where approximately 200 tons of merchandise were unloaded, primarily food items from the basic family basket destined for Cuba’s first village and the municipality of Maisí.
Transportation by sea contributes to the saving of energy and other resources, as transporting this amount by land requires 10 20-ton trucks, each of which must travel approximately 492 kilometers and consume approximately 3,000 liters of fuel, in addition to tire wear on the La Farola Viaduct.
After nearly five years without receiving vessels due to unfinished dredging in the bay and repair work at its facilities, the Port of Baracoa resumed its coastal shipping operations in early June 2023.
The investment program at the dock included the remodeling of the access road and major repairs to the warehouses, replacing floors, electrical wiring, and roofs.
Operations were also mechanized with the use of forklifts and the installation of a first-generation platform manufactured in China to expedite the unloading and placement of products in the warehouses, and to operate vessels with a capacity of up to 1,000 tons of cargo.
