FedEx tries to delay launching flights to Cuba as political unrest grows
FedEx is trying to delay its entry into the Cuban market – while yesterday, the country’s president launched a ...
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By Mike Wackett
The confirmation that the US Obama administration has approved the first passenger and cargo ferry service between Florida and Cuba in more than 50 years is great news for container lines eyeing the consumer goods-hungry market. Since Cuba’s 1959 communist-led revolution which saw Fidel Castro come to power there has been an embargo on trade with the Caribbean island, but last December the US and Cuba took the first steps in thawing diplomatic relations, including allowing the legal import of Havana ...
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