Havana, April 12.- In the ports of Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Cienfuegos and Nuevitas, four ships are unloaded, from which it is estimated that about four thousand tons of rice will be extracted every day, to guarantee the completion of the seven pounds of this product from the basic supply rationing for the month of April, and the additional kilogram that is being given to the population, free of charge.
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Lázaro Bruno Pich Sobrino, head of the Port, Transportation, Internal Economy Group, explained to Cuban Television that other coastal vessels are also operated through the ports of Boquerón, in Guantánamo; Vita, in Holguín and Carúpano, in Las Tunas, in which supplies are unloaded for the population.
Along with these tasks, he added, a ship of wheat flour from Türkiye is unloaded in the port of Havana, with about 20 thousand tons, destined mainly for the production of bread for the basic supply rationing for the entire country.
Pich Sobrino highlighted that all these tasks, carried out simultaneously, demand greater effort from the workers, while, while the operation progresses, other ships are waiting to dock at docks and proceed to unload.
This program includes the extraction and transportation of the rice donation on six large flights, sent by the People's Republic of China, at the José Martí international airport in the capital.
Yaima Martínez Peralta, deputy director of the Port of Havana, said that the work scheme has been designed, maintaining three brigades to unload 800 tons in 24 hours, most of it in the morning, to be able to comply with the the country's need for flour to reach all places, in order to make bread. (Granma) (Photo: Radio Nuevitas Facebook page)
