A cargo ship carrying humanitarian aid from the United States to Cuba in the first expedition of its kind in 50 years arrived on Friday. 

The Ana Cecilia arrived at the entrance to Havana Bay after the International Port Corp obtained a special permit from US authorities that complies with Washington's half-century-old trade embargo on Cuba, allowing the ship to sail from Miami. The company's clients for what will be a weekly shipment include charitable, religious and humanitarian groups, as well as relatives of people living in Cuba, according to the firm. The US embargo against Cuba was declared in 1962.