With less breadth than the previous year and looking for the certainties of success in business opportunities between local businessmen and their foreign counterparts, the Industry and Commerce Fair of this eastern Cuban province opened its doors on Tuesday at the Theme Park.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- The event closes a year when the creativity of the companies here was put to the test in the face of shortages of raw materials and energy, as a result of the impact on the Cuban economy of the tightening of the U.S. blockade and the international crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic and the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Despite this scenario, in his opening remarks, governor Jaime Chiang Vega highlighted that -at this Fair- "we can show our people the range of products we produce to develop our territory, both economically and socially."
In the presence of Manuel Pérez Gallego, a member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) and its first secretary in this province, Gabriel David Pérez Fernández, the director of the Holguín-Las Tunas Delegation of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Cuba, and of the 80 accredited companies, Chiang Vega meant that during these three days the different stands are the showcase of merchandise or services that could be classified as exportable items; the scenario for the rubric of foreign investment projects here; and the propitious context to "establish more and better productive chains and new strategic alliances that integrate different forms of production and economic management, having science and innovation with a predominant role.”
"That, he said, demonstrates the potential of the Las Tunas Business System." The governor did not hide his optimism that new links could also be created with businessmen potentially interested in investing in this part of the country, as some coming from Canada and Uruguay are already close.
On its opening day, the forum set its sights on the presentation of the first direct export-import company in this territory, Integral Agricultural (AGROINT); which, its director advanced, would have already made the first shipments of charcoal and farming products to clients in North America and Europe.
This Wednesday the Fair continued with the cancellation of a postage stamp on its occasion and a keynote speech by experts from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (MINCEX, in Spanish). Also, with a meeting between the hotel chains and the supplier companies based in Las Tunas, besides the presentation of products and services.
