2024-03-28 07:05:23
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Text: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
The Turkish electricity generating ship Irem Sultan of the Karadeniz Powership company was diverted from the Dominican Republic to Cuba, given that said company could not advance the electricity generation project in the community of Los Negros.
The electricity generation project could not advance in the Dominican province of Azua. The information was provided to the Dominican newspaper Diario Libre by Carlos Matamoros, a representative of the company. “We have not been able to build the transmission line having all the permits, the population has not allowed us to finish the work on the line,” said the executive.
The official clarified that the ship would head towards the Caribbean island as the mishaps in the community of Los Negros culminated. “We are sending it to Cuba while the work is finished and the permits are obtained. “It will dock in Cuba for as long as necessary,” he explained to the media. The boat has already docked on the island.
The Karadeniz Powership company has five ships currently operating in Cuba, located in the Bay of Havana and in the vicinity of the Máximo Gómez Báez Thermoelectric Power Plant, in Mariel, in Artemisa, with a total capacity of around 250 megawatts (MW).
It has supplied 60% of the electricity of Gambia, 26% of Ghana, 100% of Guinea Bissau, 10% of Guinea, 25% of Lebanon, 10% of Mozambique, 15% of Senegal, 80% from Sierra Leone, 10% from Sudan, among other countries.
The representative of the Turkish company maintained that the violent events and disturbances occurred in the community belonging to Puerto Viejo, three contractors of the company were injured in incidents with the community members, who had “destroyed windows of one of the vehicles and threatened to burn The equipment also uses gasoline, which is why we had to remove it.”
For his part, César Beltré, general secretary of the Los Negros Port Workers Union, said he had no knowledge of the destruction of the company’s equipment. “At first there was an issue about a tent, but it was a long time ago,” he said, quoted by the Dominican media outlet.