After almost five decades, Misiones once again has an operational river port with the
capacity to operate overseas containers
.
This Monday the first barge arrived with 40 containers that will be loaded with
cellulosic pulp, tea and wood
destined for
international markets
.
The commissioning of the port of the provincial capital will allow many companies
to do without trucks
to get their production, with a significant
reduction in costs.
After overcoming numerous obstacles,
Misiones obtained authorization
to hire a Bolivian-flagged tugboat so that
the Paraná River once again becomes an option to take production out of the province.
On this first trip, 40 containers will go down the river with cellulosic pulp from Arauco Argentina, tea made by Finlays/Casa Fuentes and El Vasco, and wood industrialized by the Pindó forestry company.
The cargo will leave next week
for the port of Rosario and from there to Montevideo
, where it will go to overseas ships, according to the route set by the MSC shipping company.
The president of the Misiones Economic Federation, Guillermo Fachinello, tried to bring peace of mind to the sector linked to land transport.
"
The trucks will continue to work
, but this modality will allow us to lower costs a lot, which is what we need in this context," said the lumber businessman.
The port, baptized "Navy Lieutenant Eliana María Krawczyk" in honor of the
only officer who died in the sinking of the ARA San Juan submarine
, in 2017, obtained authorization to operate in 2019, but after unsuccessful tenders to find an operator,
the provincial government decided to take charge of putting it into operation.
The president of the provincial Port Administration board, Ricardo Babiak, described the event as "a great moment for provincial logistics, for exporters and the private sector as a whole." He said that the operation of the port will generate new jobs.
The Carolina tugboat and the two barges with the 40 containers took ten days to go up the Paraná River from Rosario.
This Monday around 5:00 p.m. they moored in the port of the provincial capital and a few minutes later the work of unloading the containers began.
Babiak explained that the next step for the port is to
set up a fiscal warehouse
so that it can operate "with other products that are being made in the province and that are being exported" but on a smaller scale.
"When we have the fiscal deposit enabled, we will be able to carry out the consolidation of these products in our port," he explained.
The official said that the new port will generate "a spillover of benefits that has just started and will gradually become visible" and that it will also reach other sectors of the local economy.
Regarding the operation, he maintained that "we want our convoy to go to Rosario every fifteen days and do the entire circuit with the containers, without having to wait for the days to unload, fill the containers and load, as it will do on these first trips."
And he estimated that
by the middle of this year it will work that way.
Posadas (correspondent
)
NE
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