The beginning of the unloading rice in the port of Havana complementary to the family basket regulated for the population of the west and center of the country, corresponding to the month of December, has once again become an event widely reported by theofficial press.
Leydis Almaguer Pérez, director of the Wholesale Trade Assurance Company, reported on the National Television News (NTV)that the process - started on Sunday, December 17 - contemplates the extraction of 1,200 tons per day.
He also explained that a transportation scheme is planned so that the cereal reaches its destinations in the shortest time possible.
Almaguer Pérez pointed out that there is support from the entire cargo transportation system and the port-transport-internal economy chain.
The unloading in Havana must end on December 25 and then the ship will travel to Nuevitas to take the rice to the provinces of Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila.
In recent days, the Ministry of Domestic Trade and several national media outlets have documented the unloading of rice on their social networks. Something that in another time would have been normal, becomes an extraordinary event given the painful situation that the island is going through.
On December 10, the arrival at the Guillermón Moncada port of Santiago de Cuba of a ship with 25 thousand tons of rice destined for the five eastern provinces, was also an event that the official press celebrated with great fanfare.
In his speech before the National Assembly this Wednesday, the Cuban Prime Minister revealed that a drop in the water level in the Panama Canal causedtwo ships will be stranded with precious food for Cubans.
The argument brought up the geographical and climatic fatalism that already caused the Minister of Internal Trade to raise ridicule in October by stating that thelack of peas in Cuba to mix coffee, was due to freezing of the rivers of Canada.
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