-DATE- 19810303 -YEAR- 1981 -DOCUMENT_TYPE- SPEECH -AUTHOR- F. CASTRO -HEADLINE- AT PORT OF ILISHEVO IN ODESSA, USSR -PLACE- ODESSA, USSR -SOURCE- HAVANA DOMESTIC TV -REPORT_NBR- FBIS -REPORT_DATE- 19810304 -TEXT- Castro Ilishevo Speech FL030203 Havana Domestic Television Service in Spanish 0100 GMT 3 Mar 81 [Speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro at port of Ilishevo in Odessa, USSR, on 2 March 1981--recorded] [Text] Dear workers of the port of Ilishevo: I must make a brief speech to express my gratitude for the welcome, to express my gratitude for the opportunity to meet with you during my visit to this port of Ilishevo. Millions of tons of goods pass every year through this port on their way from the USSR to Cuba and from Cuba to the USSR. This port is of vital importance, not only for the Soviet Union but also for our country. This port is a symbol of the friendship and economic cooperation between the Soviet Union and Cuba. As you all know, the work of this port is of enormous importance. It is not good for the shipments going to Cuba to be delayed. It is also not good for the shipments coming from Cuba to the USSR to be delayed. In Cuba our port workers are making a great effort to unload and load rapidly the Soviet vessels. The party leaders in Odessa and Ilishevo give special attention to the handling of goods going to Cuba so that they are loaded rapidly and the vessels are not delayed. For all these reasons, comrades, we wish to express our most profound gratitude and convey to you greetings from our people and, especially, from our port workers. [applause] Long live eternal friendship between the Soviet and Cuban workers! Long live the eternal friendship between the Soviet and Cuban people! Between the CPSU and the PCC! Long live proletarian internationalism! [applause and shouts of "Viva Cuba"] -END-