President Xi Jinping said China is ready to work with Cuba to continuously deepen bilateral relations in the new era, when holding talks with visiting Cuban ...
The mariel port is more a diplomatic effort to encourage the US to lift the blockade, Mariel is a tiny suburb of Havana. Santiago de Cuba will be the new major port in Cuba even larger than Havana, because of it’s position on the southeast of the island with access to the Caribbean sea, and being Cuba’s 2nd largest city already. Mariel is more of an ambitious futuristic “development zone” where all sorts of international businesses will be given special status and things like tax exemption to operate there, however it requires alot of stuff to happen first, mostly involving the US embargoes. So not even 1% has been built yet. So China just finished a major $100 million renovation of the santiago port, while Cuba is planning a $20+ billion possible future development in mariel that would be 500 sqkm big and would also include a new major port upgrade
The mariel port is more a diplomatic effort to encourage the US to lift the blockade, Mariel is a tiny suburb of Havana. Santiago de Cuba will be the new major port in Cuba even larger than Havana, because of it’s position on the southeast of the island with access to the Caribbean sea, and being Cuba’s 2nd largest city already. Mariel is more of an ambitious futuristic “development zone” where all sorts of international businesses will be given special status and things like tax exemption to operate there, however it requires alot of stuff to happen first, mostly involving the US embargoes. So not even 1% has been built yet. So China just finished a major $100 million renovation of the santiago port, while Cuba is planning a $20+ billion possible future development in mariel that would be 500 sqkm big and would also include a new major port upgrade