While the head of the National Agency for Ports and Navigation (ANPYN), Iñaki Arreseygor, began the meetings of the Interdisciplinary Dialogue Table for River Development, in the Libertad Palace, where he ratified the will of the administration of Javier Milei to tender the hydrovia once again, during the present year, the riverside governors of the river highway will hold a meeting to ratify their will to ratify their will to get involved in the new bidding sheet.
Since last November, several provincial leaders held the claim, before the president, so that The provinces are included “in the design of the concession”, Justifying the order in the importance it has for the productive ecosystem of the provincial states, the correct administration of the river highway.
Hydrovia tender: governors want to gain prominence
The provincial heads of state, who will participate in the meeting convened by the Governor of the UCR of Chaco, Leandro Zdero, in Resistencia, on Monday 28, will have as an exclusive theme the current of the hydrovy and the possibility of generating a vision together that they can present to Arreseygor.
None of the provincial leaders called were excused from participating and will be present with the host governor, El Cordobés, Martín Llaryora; the entrerriano, Rogelio Frigerio; the Santa Fe, Maximiliano Pullaro; El Correntino, Gustavo Valdés; the missionary, Hugo Passalacqua; And, the Formoseño, Gildo Insfrán.
The Zdero Chaqueño explained, to local media, that “… it is extremely important to call hydrovy, because it has to do with logistics, transport and openness to the world through our ports and, of course, we want to be part of it.”
Private sector claims
Businessmen, port workers and exporters representatives agree to point out the importance of the dialogue meetings headed by Arreseygor so that the next tender does not end in failure and with complaints against a company for emptying the compulsamade by the National Government, against the Belgian company, Deme.
In that context, they agree to point out the importance of launch a transparent bidding process, where the main diver and beaconing companies of the world compete that ensure for the future of the navigable trunk road (VTN) the necessary draft for Argentina’s exports, to reach the world.
To have a notion of the importance of the river highway for sales that our country performs abroad, it should be noted that only in the province of Santa Fe, LThe exports of grains and grinding by -products from the Gran Rosario increased from 10 million tons in 1993 to 86 million tons in 2022.
The objective pursued by the export sector is the deepening of the channels to 36 feet, 10.97 meters, in the Paraná River and its proper maintenance under the concession system.
Recently, some inconveniences were recorded in the navigability of the hydrovy caused by a strong lateral water current in the area where the Bermejo River flows, where ships must be divided to travel and is causing delays in circulation.
Luis Zubizarreta, president of the Commercial Private Puertos Chamber, warned of the operational problems in a section of the Paraná River that force to divide the convoys of barges and generate important delays in the entry of foreign soybeans, key to national grinding prior to the local harvest.
In statements to Chacra magazine, he said that “the situation is very complex.” And he explained: “There is a point where the Bermejo flows, which comes with a lot of water, and that generates a cumbersome problem. For weeks, barges from Paraguay and Brazil are forced to modify their transit by the strong lateral current. Captains have to move from a barge slowing down the entire system, causing the flow of ships that lower the river is lower, and generating a kind of funnel. “
