Guantanamo – The passage of vehicle on the highway that connects the San Antonio del Sur Municipalities with Imías Municipality, in Guantanamo Province, allowed transport operations of food and donation for the recovery of the eastern municipalities severely affected by the passage of Hurricane Oscar.
Once land passage to the Imías Municipality o was reestablished, the Ministry of Transportation reports that the main task will be to concentrate efforts on the passage from the Guantánamo City to that municipality, Baracoa and Maisí.
There are 7 rice boxes at the Loading and Unloading Center of the Cuban Railway Union. 5 are unloaded, which make up about 300 tons, and a part will be sent there.
According to the information, 70 tons of rice, 14 tons of pasta and 7.5 tons of sardines are being transported to Maisí, while 95 tons of rice, 10 tons of pasta, 10 tons of sardines and bottled water, as well as about 100 mattresses, will be transported to Imías.
A truck will leave for San Antonio with a load of 200 mattresses, an oil tanker and part of the basic food basket. It is also reported that in the next few hours another 40 tons of rice will be transported from Santiago de Cuba to Baracoa.
During the day, 72 vehicles entered the Guantánamo Province through checkpoints. Some of them were loaded with donations, packages, bottled water, condiments, powdered milk, food, meat products, sweet biscuits, kitchen sets and cleaning products.
The following load arrived in Baracoa: 45 tons of wheat flour, 12 tons of sweet biscuits, 3 containers of pasta and 2 of sardines, 3 trailers with 66 tons of water in 5-liter containers, 5,000 limes, 5,000 machetes, 20 tons of urea.
In transit to Baracoa from Camaguey: 10 thousand liters of syrup, 6 tons of sweet biscuits and 5 of salt. 30 tons of laundry soap and 20 tons of toilet soap were loaded in Arenal. The PC-400 is waiting to leave for Baracoa.
Every detail is specified by the Transport subgroup today, very early.
All the above information is offered by a team from the Ministry of Transport that assumes the communication of such important clarifications made by the head of the branch, in view of the emergency in Guantanamo and the imminent need to inform immediately.
The aforementioned Mitrans team is coordinated by Vice Minister Luis Roberto Roses and Henry Rodríguez Terrero, provincial delegate of Transport in Guantanamo; Sandra Loureiro, director of the National Roads Center; and Claudia Rafaela Ortiz, journalist from Desafío.
