By Marc Frank HAVANA, March 31 (Reuters) – Cuban state-run media said at the weekend that 90,000 metric tons of Russian oil had arrived in the cash and fuel-short country to help…
https://gcaptain.com/russian-oil-arrives-in-cuba-after-year-long-hiatus/
The Mariel Container Terminal (TCM) – the main container terminal in Cuba, with a yearly container throughput of approximately 300,000 teu and capacity of 800,000 teu – has completed the dredging of its access channel to accommodate neopanamax vessels. With the new channel dimensions, the terminal...
By Marianna Parraga March 13 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA on Monday was loading a supertanker with crude and fuel for Cuba, maritime documents showed, an unusually large volume to help…
https://gcaptain.com/venezuela-to-ship-oil-to-cuba-on-blacklisted-supertanker/
By Brian Ellsworth MIAMI, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Norwegian Cruise Line NCLH.N must pay $110 million in damages for use of a port that Cuba’s government confiscated in 1960, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday,…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-judge-orders-norwegian-cruise-line-to-pay-110-mln-for-use-of-cuba-port/
By Marianna Parraga HOUSTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) – Cuba is using a combination of ship-to-ship transfers and floating oil storage to ease fuel scarcity and power cuts following a fire that destroyed…
https://gcaptain.com/cuba-boosts-fuel-imports-and-reshuffles-shipping-after-terminal-fire/
Cuba’s largest port for crude oil and fuel imports was heavily damaged in a fire that started on August 5 after lightning struck a storage tank. The fire, finally extinguished five days later, destroyed four of eight crude oil tanks at the Matanzas port, located about 130 km from Havana. Both...
The following is the Aug. 1, 2022, Congressional Research Service report, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay: History and Legal Issues Regarding Its Lease Agreements.
From the report
This report briefly outlines the history of the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, its changing relationship to the surrounding community, and its heightened importance due to military operations in Afghanistan. The report also explains in detail the legal status of the lease of the land on which the naval station...
https://news.usni.org/2022/08/10/report-to-congress-on-the-history-of-naval-station-guantanamo-bay
Lightning struck a crude oil storage tank at Cuba’s main oil terminal in Matanzas on Friday, sparking a massive fire. The tank exploded just before midnight on Friday, spilling fuel that spread to the adjacent tank, which exploded around noon on Saturday. One firefighter died and 16 people are...
By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Cuba sought on Sunday to bring under control a fire at its main oil storage facility that has killed one firefighter,…
https://gcaptain.com/cuba-gets-help-from-mexico-venezuela-to-fight-port-fire/
Last Friday, July 8, will forever be remembered as the date on which former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated at an election rally in the city of Nara. ..