Cruise Travels, Another Target of US Barriers
22 de octubre de 2014, 09:23Havana, Oct 22 (Prensa Latina) The economic blockade the United States has maintained on Cuba has a strong impact on tourism, and particularly in an important element, cruise travels.
Authorities of the sector insisted yesterday in Cuba’s potentialities, as an island, for this kind of tuorism and for its privileged geographic location for the cruisers that sail all over the Caribbean, vetoed by those economic and trade barriers imposed by the Washington government.
About that topic, Aries Transportes S.A. general director Norberto Perez talked with the press and insisted in the efforts to develop this recreational modality.
Perez said Cuba has built facilities for the docking of this kind of vessels in Havana, Santiago de Cuba, Cienfuegos, and stops in the western beach of Punta Frances, in Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth).
Those facilities are underutilized due to the blockade, said the official, who referred to the U.S. people’s prohibition to travel to this island by sea, ban that has intensified currently.
Those criticized legislations prohibit ships from the United States to touch Cuban ports, while ships from other nationalities are prevented from arriving at their ports in a 180-day period, after coming to this country.
Perez noted that such barriers prevents the country from receiving about $149,520,280 USD per year.
According to estimates from April 1995 to April 2013, Cuba had an affectation of nearly $2.4 billion USD for cruiser activity, due to U.S. barriers.
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