Cienfuegos continues supply to hurricane-affected areas

Despite undertaking one of the largest maintenance campaigns of the past 16 years, the Cemento Cienfuegos’ plant in Cienfuegos, Cuba, will continue to deliver cement to areas affected by hurricanes.

The repairs total a value of more than CUP3m and, having started on 8 November, are scheduled to be completed in mid-December. After 15 December shipments in line with national demand will resume.

Benito Lôpez Touriño, head of dispatches at the plant, said that the company has sufficient clinker stock to maintain production. The plant forecasts to dispatch around 50,000t this month, including 11,000t via ships to the ports of Vita, Holguín, and Niquero, Granma, as well as Santiago de Cuba. An additional 12,000t are to be delivered by rail while 18,000t was sent in bulk to the wholesale stores in Matanzas, Villa Clara and Ciego de Avila.

In the first 11M2017, total domestic shipments reached 540,000t of cement and more than 100,000t of clinker - the latter for the cement plants of Nuevitas and Santiago de Cuba.