Cuba’s Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) clarified this Tuesday on its Twitter account that two tankers. The Belgin Sultan and the Erol Bay, with an installed capacity of 124 MW, are currently in the country.
According to the Ministry, following the recent arrival of Russian fuel. Also both tankers will begin generating electricity in the second half of this month.
The Ministry also clarified in its Twitter post that no other tankers have arrived in the Caribbean nation in recent hours.
Recently, the Russian tanker Anatoli Kolodkin arrived in Cuba. With approximately 100,000 tons of crude oil as part of the Russian government’s solidarity aid.
Moreover this was the first tanker to dock in Cuban ports in the last three months. After the United States government imposed a blockade on fuel shipments to the archipelago. Following the announcement of sanctions against any country that supplies oil to Cuba.
The Caribbean nation had not received any oil shipments since January 9th, triggering a severe energy crisis.
With information from Prensa Latina
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