Cuba faces its worst fuel crisis in decades.

Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Guy Kilty, good morning.

Cuba's tourism industry has suffered a major blow after dozens of flights were cancelled because of a lack of aviation fuel.

Air Canada, which flies many tourists to the Caribbean island, suspended flights on Monday because of a lack of aviation fuel. Air Canada, which flies many tourists to the Caribbean

Island, suspended flights on Monday because of the shortages. The scarcity of jet fuel is the latest

result of efforts by the Trump administration to impose an effective oil blockade on the

communist nation. The White House is threatening tariffs on any country which supplies

Havana and local people are already feeling the pain.

I've spent two hours waiting for the fuel tanker to arrive and no sign of it.

We don't know if it's coming, and this is paying in dollars.

I've been here for five hours.

No tanker yet and no idea if it's coming.

They say it's coming, but who knows? In Cuban pesos or foreign currency, whatever.

So what does this mean for air travel to and from Cuba? The BBC's Will Grant reports.

It's pretty significant, first and foremost, because Canada is the primary source of tourists to Cuba. So the immediate

impact will be there and Air Canada is saying that it's suspending its flights, that it will

be ferrying out those customers who are still there around about 3,000 they believe are still

in the country and getting them home. But of course this is having an effect on other airlines

who are looking at their services, wondering exactly how they're going to do things, because it's

quite simple. They cannot refuel in Havana. So short haul flights to Mexico and Miami should

still run, but it is going to get increasingly tough for those flights from Turkey, Russia,

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