Cuban and Mississippi ports sign MoUs

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 20 (ACN) Port authorities from Cuba and the US state of Mississippi signed two memoranda of understanding to explore business opportunities despite the US blockade of Cuba.

In a forum held in Havana, Manuel Pérez Guerra, general director of the Cuban Ports Authority and Mark McAndrews and Jonathan Daniels, representing the ports of Pascagoula and Gulfport, respectively, signed the agreements.
Senator William Thad Cochran (R-Miss) was present in the ceremony.
María de la Luz B'Hamel, director of Commercial Policy with the United States at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment, said there is great potential for business between those ports and Cuba due to the geographical proximity and the excellent fluvial and maritime ways Mississippi has.
The possibilities we manage to identify in this exploratory meeting can boost new steps in favor of the lifting of the US blockade and of the normalization of relations between the two countries.
Cuba has reached agreements with ports in the US states of Virginia, Louisiana and Alabama