Since its beginning, once again TC Mariel reaffirms its commitment and goes for more
The end of the 2020 is borne by the mark of Covid-19 and by its traces in all sectors of the socioeconomic life of the country. The 2021 year began and the challenge of continuing and promoting our daily work from a new normality was imposed.
Focused on making prevention our best practice to take care of ourselves and our families, the 2021 was passing by, a year that gradually resumed every purpose and goal that the Covid-19 had postponed.
In times of pandemic, our Company overcomes the difficulties and joins in the work of confronting the health and economic crisis that the Island is experiencing as a result of the current epidemiological situation and the intensified blockade.
Fraternal hands from sister nations arrived at our Terminal to offer their supportive help. During the course of the 2021 year Great moments marked TC Mariel. And in this way the months passed.
We received during the period more than 7 vessels with donations from some countries such as Venezuela, Mexico and Nicaragua. An important donation of food arrived at our port on the ship “Augusto César Sandino”.
It was a pride for the Terminal to be part of those moments and to contribute with our actions to the realization of such humanitarian work, because our group, attached to good practices and with a desire of doing things well, was the protagonist of these decisive operations that allowed the final destination of the goods very quickly.
In particular, the youth of the Terminal was the leader of many of these tasks during the year in the confrontation to the pandemic, and as part of this, the National Bureau of the UJC awarded the condition “Youth for Life” to 21 workers of our entity who stood out for their responsible action in adopting the sanitary measures and the most important thing was their contribution in giving support to the crew of the British cruise ship MS Breamar.
The fulfillment of the economic, productive and service indicators in the period and the recognized work of the workers inserted in the first line of combat against Covid-19, together with those who worked directly in the unloading donation operations of oxygen tanks and in their rapid transfer to the hospitals, and due to these important operations, TC Mariel was awarded with the Labor Prowess flag by the National Union of Civilian Defense Workers of the company “Almacenes Universales”.
By virtue of the Company’s relationship with its workers and as part of the health and safety regulations of the Terminal, We hosted an early vaccination campaign for the immunization of its workers and also other users of the Special Development Zone of Mariel. This management allowed our work team to carry promptly the complete vaccination schedule in its 3 doses, as well as to conclude the year with the booster dose.
Twenty-one homes were assigned to TC Mariel in the period, and at the beginning of June the first buildings were delivered, with the intention of promoting the stable and prolonged permanence of the workforce and in order to satisfy the housing needs of the team.
Our center gives more and in September 2021 the Talent Program reached its second edition, focused on the identification and development of collaborators with the potential to assume strategic positions in the company. This year the digital workshop “Here we don’t do things like that” was launched, in which essential topics such as Management and Leadership, as well as the fundamental steps for a successful change process, were analyzed.
In order to promote a good work environment that generates commitment and a sense of belonging, the communication team promoted the “En tu piel" Campaign during the period, which seeks to promote integration, teamwork and close communication through the change of role of the different leaders of the center.
Humanism and social corporate responsibility are interwoven in the historic Campaign to fight against the childhood cancer “Make them happy” in which, on this occasion, after the participation of the Management team in the PSA activity “Moviendonos por la caridad”, the buying of toys was possible for the child that are hospitalized at the National Institute of Oncology and Radiology in Havana. In the same way and in order to cement the fraternity, we also extent our solidadarity hand to the José Ramón Martínez hospital center, which is a pediatric hospital in the province of Artemisa destined for the isolation of infants that are suffering from Covid-19 at a time when the figures of infected reported the pandemic spikes.
During 2021, concrete steps were taken in projects that seek to improve the production processes and the automation of the Terminal.
New victories augurs 2022 for TC Mariel, a year of ambitious challenges and, surely of multiple conquests.
The Eighth Anniversary of the Terminal is approaching and, on the threshold of that event, we hope to share many goals, among them the desire of being more competent every day as an entity, to which we dedicate our maximum effort. The fulfillment of each outlined indicator, the satisfaction of the needs of our clients, the increase of the commitment and the sense of belonging of the workers based on the improvement of the climate of our workplace become bulwarks for the Container Terminal, which In 2014 was the first user of the Special Development Zone. TC Mariel will not fail in the effort of achievin each of these purposes, no matter how difficult they may seem. We turn problems into challenges and we face challenges. We will work to be better, we will not give up on that effort!