After nearly five decades, Misiones once again has an operational river port and with ability to handle containers overseas. This Monday the first barge arrived with 40 containers that will be loaded cellulosic pulp, tea and wood obliged to international markets.
The commissioning of the port of the provincial capital will allow many businesses do without trucks to get their production, with a major cost reduction.
After overcoming numerous obstacles, Misiones has obtained the authorization rent a tugboat flying the Bolivian flag so that the Paraná River once again becomes an option to take production out of the province.
In this first trip, 40 containers will go down the river with cellulose pulp from Arauco Argentina, tea produced by Finlays/Casa Fuentes and El Vasco and wood industrialized by the Pindó forestry company. The cargo will leave next week with destination at the port of Rosario and from there to Montevideowhere it will pass to overseas vessels, according to the route established by the MSC shipping company.
The president of the Economic Federation of Misiones, Guillermo Fachinello, has tried to bring tranquility to the sector linked to land transport. “The trucks will continue to operatebut this mode will allow us to lower costs a lot, which is what we need in this context,” said the timber entrepreneur.
The port, christened “Lieutenant of the Navy Eliana María Krawczyk” in honor of only officer who died in the sinking of the submarine ARA San Juanin 2017, it obtained the authorization to operate in 2019, but after failed tenders for the search for an operator, the provincial government decided to take charge of putting it into operation.
The president of the provincial council of Port Administration, Ricardo Babiak, called the event “a great moment for the provincial logistics, for exporters and for the private sector as a whole”, stating that the operation of the port will generate new jobs Work.
The tug Carolina and the two barges with the 40 containers took ten days to sail up the Paraná River from Rosario. This Monday around 17:00 they docked in the port of the provincial capital and a few minutes later the container unloading operations began.
Babiak explained that the next step to the port is the authorization of a tax warehouse so that it can operate “with other products that are made in the province and that are exported” but on a smaller scale. “When we have tax warehousing enabled, we will be able to consolidate these products in our port,” she explained.
The official said the new port will generate “a spillover of benefits that has just begun and will gradually become visible” and that it will also reach other sectors of the local economy.
Regarding the operation, he argued that “we want our convoy to go to Rosario every fortnight and go all the way around with the containers, without having to wait days to unload, fill the containers and load, as it will do in these first trips. ” and she valued it by the middle of this year it will work like this.
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Source: Clarin
