Havana Cuba
Return to Cuba: train of Catherineburg-Havan
Barack Obama lifted the economic blockade of Cuba by a large gesture and declared the end of the long-standing feud. As always, his words were weakly aligned with reality. In the Liberty Islands, people live less trustworthy and less hopeless in order to immediately forget half a century of economic strangulation and countless attempts to remove the leader of the Cuban Revolution and the head of the country, Fidel Castro.
Cubans have a good memory, so they prefer to target a long-standing ally and a reliable partner, Russia. The Cuban leadership understood our difficulties in the 1990s and the consequent weakening of mutual relations. Now we're going back to a distant island.
What can Russia offer to Cuba? The Naphth! No, not oil. Russia will provide Cuba with manoeuvres for Cuban railways. And not a dozen, but a whole 75 grand. In addition, Russian specialists will repair and modernize the former Russian locomotives.
The shipment and repair of locomotives has already been signed in Havana. On the Cuban side, he was signed by the Vice-President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisa Ruiz, and from Russia by the Chairman of the Council of Directors of the Sinara Group, Dmitri Pumpian. (For inquiries. The Sinara Group, with its headquarters in Ekaterinburg, is a multidisciplinary company. In her priorities, engineering, financial services and development.)
According to the contract, from 2017 to 2021, Sinara-Transport Cars will supply 60 manoeuvres in the TGM8 series to Cuba and 15 TGN4 units in the People ' s Heating Plant. It's 40 years old. In 2017, Cuba will receive 15 locomotives.
New heaters are adapted to work in hot and humid tropical climates. Previously (1978-1993) the same factory supplied TM8 MM to Cuba, which is now to be upgraded. The value of the entire contract, including itself in addition to the supply of vehicles and spare parts, and the training of staff, was almost 12.5 billion roubles.
Since Obama ' s visit to Cuba, many of the “companyers” have been crying in a voice: “We lose it”. They didn't get their hopes up. We don't lose Cuba, we retrieve it, not with vague promises, but with real business proposals.