The Cubamax Group confirmed on Monday the good reception of the beginning of frozen meat shipments from the United States to Cuba, as a result of a contract signed with the Cuban company Aerovaradero.
Several months ago we were negotiating this agreement that gives the possibility to people living in the United States to send this food to Cuba by air with a maximum delivery time of three to four days, said Carlos Trujillo, president and one of the founders of the group, in an interview with Prensa Latina.
The realization of the project – he commented – is a response “to something that the Cuban community in Miami, and in general in the United States, has been asking for”.
Trujillo explained that the shipping process is not complex and that his group has created the conditions to pack and transport the product in cargo planes to Havana.
For the time being, this new service will only be provided in the Cuban capital. “We are starting to see how it develops and how it is accepted, but the tests tell us that everything is going satisfactorily,” Trujillo stressed.
The first flight with this type of product left on April 17 and the next day it was already delivered, he pointed out.
We have proof of the speed and the state in which the meat arrived: frozen, as we had planned, he pointed out.
Of course,” he said, “our objective is to gradually expand the service to other provinces.
Trujillo added that Cubamax has several projects underway. “We have been transporting different types of packages for several months with a seven-day delivery in Havana city and up to two weeks in the rest of Cuba’s provinces.
We also do this in coordination with Aerovaradero. The bulk of the operations are in Havana (three), Santa Clara (one) and Holguín (one) per week, he emphasized.
The contract for the provision of freight forwarding services between the Cuban firm Aerovaradero and the U.S. group Cubamax was signed in the context of the recent International Transport and Logistics Fair (FITL 2024) on the island.
Aerovaradero has had a contract with Cubamax since July 2023 and, due to the levels of cargo it ships monthly, it has become one of the Cuban entity’s strategic partners.
To a question from the reporter he admitted that “Cuba is everyone’s homeland, it is the place that always remains in our memories, where our families are, the people we love, the places we remember, I think that can never be forgotten”.
That is why for Trujillo an improvement of the relations between the two countries would be so important, “it is what we all aspire for the benefit of both sides”.
The Cubamax group was founded in 2001 by Trujillo and Giraldo Acosta. “During these 24 years we have been working uninterruptedly in South Florida for the well-being of the Cuban family,” he said.
Our purpose is to bring happiness, to bring help to the entire Cuban family and to be a guarantee and trust for those who choose us, he concluded.
Hence the slogan ‘Tranquilo Cubamax takes care of it’.
With information from Prensa Latina / Translated by Radio Angulo
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