The first ALBA ship with more than 6 thousand tons of food sailed from La Guaira

Published at: 21/08/2025 08:28 PM

This Thursday, August 21, the first vessel of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) sailed from the Port of La Guaira, loaded with more than six thousand 100 tons of fertilizers, food for human and animal consumption, in order to consolidate intraregional trade under a supportive, complementary and mutually beneficial scheme.

The Executive Secretary of ALBA-TCP, Rander Peña, stressed that this vessel represents the materialization of the agreements adopted at the ALBA Summit held on December 14, 2024, where key instruments were defined to strengthen regional food sovereignty, such as AgroAlba and Alba Azul.

“Now we are adding this ship as a logistical tool that connects our productive capacities with the needs of our Peoples,” he said.

He also stressed that “while other empires deploy military ships in the Caribbean to intimidate and threaten peace, the Bolivarian Alliance sends ships full of food and solutions that will impact the happiness of peoples. This is the concrete expression that the blockade is overcome with political will.”

He also reported that a mapping of the productive niches of the ALBA member countries has already been carried out, which will make it possible to prioritize exports and imports within the block.

In the coming months, the Economic Complementation Council will be developed and business rounds will be held between producers and businessmen in the region, with the objective of translating integration into tangible benefits for the population.

For her part, the Minister of the People's Power of Foreign Trade, Coromoto Godoy, accompanied the departure of the ALBA ship, which inaugurates the AGRO-ALBA Route.

“This is a historic moment because ALBA's first maritime route begins, opening up concrete opportunities: to lower logistics costs, promote new productive niches and expand space in the regional market for our producers,” he said.

He stressed that “this ALBA navigation route is the first and great step for fair, supportive and prosperous trade of sister peoples who are advancing united in the unstoppable struggle for their independence and development.”

The ALBA ship will travel to various destinations in the Caribbean and Latin America, to establish the block's first regular maritime routes, and lay the foundations for a sovereign and cooperative logistics network.

The sailing ceremony was attended by the president of Banco del ALBA, Raúl Li Causi; the Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and President of the Export Promotion Agency, Daniella Cabello, and representatives of the Venexporta Agency, who celebrated this step as a victory for the model of life based on hope, solidarity and complementarity, against the imperial model of war and domination.