After five days since a huge cargo ship flying the Liberian flag collided with the first pillar of the
Zárate Brazo Largo
bridge and generated million-dollar losses by cutting off naval traffic in the area, specialized personnel
managed to remove the ship with two trailers
and in the next hours traffic will return to normal.
After noon, National Gendarmerie personnel began to free vehicular traffic from the town of Ceibas in Entre Rios and the Buenos Aires town of Zárate.
"The ship was removed from the Miter Bridge
at 12 noon and no
compromising crack
was found
in the bridge pier," reported the coordinator of the operation, Ernesto Arriaga, although specialized personnel will inspect the place where the accident occurred last Sunday. the crash.
Meanwhile, naval traffic will be released during the day by an operation carried out by Naval Prefecture personnel, after the ship is transferred to the Piapsa dock in the city of Zárate.
A concessionaire company began a removal and transfer event at 9:45 this Friday with a work group made up of 30 people.
The operation included cutting off traffic on routes 12 and 14 at the Miter Bridge on the Buenos Aires province side and from Entre Ríos, with a procedure that
lasted two hours
.
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From the side of the province of Entre Ríos, the traffic cut occurred from the town of Ceibas and on the Entre Rios police road, at the base of the two bridges.
On Talavera Island, one of those that make up the Buenos Aires sector of the Paraná River Delta, located between the Paraná Guazú River and the Talavera Passage, in the districts of San Fernando, Campana and Zárate, vehicles did not circulate and national Gendarmerie mobiles patrolled .
Previously, the head of the concession company in charge of the operation, Carlos Paz, had indicated that "the divers had inspected the damage to the bridge and the ship and it is believed that the
damage caused to the bridge is minor
," although they insisted on that a structuralist should review it.
For his part, Arriaga explained that more than ten Gendarmerie vehicles were deployed on both sides of the Miter Bridge to control the maximum speed that does not exceed 80 kilometers per hour on the route and 60 kilometers on the two bridges.
The crash of the Liberian cargo ship and the million-dollar losses
The ship collided last Sunday against one of the pillars of the bridge that crosses the Paraná Guazú River, and from that moment, several maneuvers were carried out with the purpose of towing it.
The crash occurred when the large vessel, which was heading towards the Santa Fe port of San Lorenzo, without cargo and with a minimal crew, grazed one of the pillars of the bridge, which caused it to stop and cause damage to the hull, on the side. starboard.
The blockade prevented the transit of deep-draft vessels that can only navigate through those lanes.
This had
economic consequences
for both the boats and the entire production chain that uses the Waterway.
According to experts consulted by Clarín, for every day that it is stopped, a large ship
loses close to 30,000 dollars
.
An average of 12 ships and 54 barges pass through the Waterway per day.
An official statement from the force reported last Monday that "a pilot, at the time the ship was sailing upstream, suffered rudder problems, for reasons that are still unknown, and lost control, colliding with a pillar." protection of the bridge on the right bank of the complex, at kilometer 106 of the Paraná de las Palmas River".
"The damaged vessel is 228 meters long, 36.5 meters wide, it came from Singapore bound for San Lorenzo," the document added.
The Federal Court of Campana, headed by Adrián González Charvay, intervenes in the event, from where they gave the order to tow the ship today.