The Ministry for Transport reported on its Instagram account that the boat set sail on December 9 with “household goods and construction materials”.

The institution also specified that this aid will allow recovery after the ravages caused by Hurricane Melissa, and “within the framework of @albatcp in order to promote cooperation between the nations of the region”.

This is the fifth shipment that the Bolivarian Republic dispatched to Cuba after Hurricane Melissa penetrated on October 29 with category three of the Saffir-Simpson scale into Cuban territory.

Venezuela sent a first shipment of humanitarian aid with 26 tons by air the day after the hurricane; on November 8, the ALBA ship transported five thousand tons and a brigade of electrical workers.

On November 10, 22 Venezuelan specialists from the electricity, transport and public works sectors traveled to Venezuela, and that same day the second ship set sail with just over 2,500 tons of humanitarian aid.

A third ship carrying more than 7,110 tons of humanitarian aid sailed on November 28 from the international port of La Guaira, in the homonymous state, north, with 76 food containers, backhoe loaders, supplies for the recovery of housing and roads.

The executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty, Rander Peña, then declared to the press that more than 12,000 tons of supplies sent to Cuba included food, appliances, mattresses, medicines, construction and electrical materials, toys, among others.

In his Telegram account, the Deputy Foreign minister for Latin America said that sending a ship with vital supplies to the Cuban people honors the centenary of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and his eternal teaching, and stated that “solidarity is not about giving what you have extra but sharing what you have”.

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