Big News Network.com (IANS) Wednesday 23rd November, 2011
Cuba's postal service will become a state-owned corporate group next
year, seeking greater efficiency and quality as part of President Raul
Castro's effort to 'modernize' the island's socialist economic model.
The official economy weekly Opciones said that Correos de Cuba 'will
shed the old megastructure that impedes its development and install more
modern systems of management, the guarantee of efficiency and quality'.
With some 13,600 employees, Correos handles such services as newspaper,
mail and shipment deliveries as well as a list of other services
including Social Security payments and credits.
Its new model as a corporate group will include 18 territorial
subsidiaries and others specializing in courier services, currency
exchange, insurance and 'superior address organization'.
Correos de Cuba's director of strategy, Raul Marcial Cortina, told the
weekly that 'decentralization' is one of the goals of restructuring,
with each subsidiary organizing and directing its own services in its
own territory.
The Cuban government recently announced the restructuring of the sugar
industry, in former times the principal driver of the nation's economy,
and similar measures are not ruled out for other sectors of the economy.
The historic Sugar Ministry was eliminated in September and in November
was replaced by the business group AZCUBA, an umbrella organization
covering 13 provincial companies plus nine support and services
agencies, two research institutes and a training center.
The reform included reducing the industry's workforce by 45 percent.
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