HAVANA, Sept 24 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The damage caused by the US blockade against Cuba in the transport sector exceeded 170 million dollars from April 2018 to March 2019.
According to the most recent report on the impact of the US blockade on Cuba, the figure represents an increase of more than 69 million dollars over the previous period.
As part of the most significant damages during this period, the document reveals that Cubana de Aviación S.A. is unable to use the services of ATPCO (Airline Tariff Publishing Company), headquartered in Washington D.C. and responsible for publishing the airfares of more than 500 airlines.
Due to the restrictions of the blockade, the report added, Cuba is forced to make an additional payment of 1,300 dollars per month to access information on airfares in the distribution system.
Likewise, Spanish airline Air Europa (UX) refrained from signing the ‘Code Share Agreement’ and from fulfilling its commitment with Cubana de Aviación, while it operates with the Boeing line, whose fleet is manufactured in the United States.
For its part, Dutch company Damen, the main supplier of Caterpillar and Cummings parts and pieces to Damex shipyards in eastern Santiago de Cuba, was forbidden by the supplier of Caterpillar in the Netherlands to sell to the island the necessary supplies for the repair and maintenance of the vessels of the Practicos de Cuba company.
From April 2018 to March 2019, the economic, financial and commercial blockade caused losses to Cuba amounting to more than 4.343 billion dollars.
Taking into account the depreciation of the dollar against the value of gold in the international market, the blockade has caused quantifiable damages of more than 922.630 billion dollars to Cuba during the last six decades.
Cuba, which will present the draft resolution against the blockade to the United Nations General Assembly for the twenty-eighth consecutive time in November, has the support of the majority of the countries of the world in its call for an end to this aggressive US policy.
Last year, for example, the island was supported with 189 votes in favor, 2 against and no abstentions, and thus added a new international victory as the draft resolution ‘Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba’ was again approved.
