Truck with 19 thousand liters of alcohol spills part of its load after an accident on a road in Holguin.

A tanker truck carrying 19,000 liters of alcohol in the town of San Germán, in the Holguin municipality of Urbano Noris, slipped out of its chock this Wednesday, spilling some of the liquid.

"The small amount of spilled liquid is under control by the specialists," stated SG Radio The Voice of Sugar on social media, without specifying the estimated quantity of alcohol that was spilled or the causes of the accident."

The spread images show the old truck carrying the liquid.

After the incident, the firefighters arrived at the scene to preserve the site and prevent material losses and human injuries, considering that it was a flammable liquid.

The source indicated, citing the testimony of a Civil Defense specialist in the municipality, that the arrival of a large crane was expected to lift the cauldron and reintegrate it into the transport truck.

Authorities from the Party, the Government, the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), and the AZCUBA Business Group appeared at the scene of the incident.

Until the closing of this note, there are no other details about the incident - which occurred at kilometer 12 northeast of Urbano Noris - nor is it confirmed that the pot has been reattached to the transporting truck.

The Sugar Company Azucarera Urbano Noris, located in the municipality of the same name, faced with the permanent failure of the sugar harvest in Cuba, has focused in recent years on the exploitation of sugarcane derivatives in an attempt to recover the losses that the sugar industry leaves behind each year.

In November 2022, an extensive article published in the Granma newspaper referred to revenues exceeding 200 million pesos that were not initially planned when its distillery, which is part of the company, began producing high-quality brandy from molasses.

The aguardiente produced by the distillery of Urbano Noris is marketed to beverage and liquor companies for the production of rums destined for domestic consumption and export. In 2022, they boasted of having produced 1,731,762 bottles of aguardiente.