HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 1 (acn) For over 50 years now, Washington has tried to paralyze the Cuban transport system by stiffening its commercial, economic and financial blockade, which from April 2013 up to date along has inflicted damage on the sector calculated at 540 million dollars, said Transport minister Cesar Arocha.
In statements to PL news agency, the minister referred to the impact by the blockade on land, maritime and plane transportation.
The railroad sector faces difficulties to purchase crucial spare parts, while the high costs of such components have had a negative impact on maintenance and repairs of local railroad transportation equipment.
In the plane transportation, the difficulties go as far as affecting the purchase by Cuba of catering products in other countries. Cuban companies cannot purchase modern technology, parts and accessories in the United States; add to this the limitations imposed on Cuban companies to overfly US territory through direct and more economical routes.
Meanwhile, the maritime sector cannot faces difficulties like the ban on third countries to hire Cuban personnel for their boats. Washington's blockade also punishes those ships that call Cuban ports, thus affecting the island's foreign trade, while obstacles are raised to prevent cruise ships from coming to the island.
These sanctions join the Cuban travel ban imposed on US citizens, which also prevents the transportation sector from earning tens of millions of dollars each year.
The US blockade of Cuba was established by Washington on February 5, 1962, which officially opened the US's hostile policy that prevails since January 1, 1959
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