During the journey, the high level of tax evasion that exists in these waterways. According to this outlet, one of the specialists summoned, the engineer Fernando Martínez of the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), it is estimated that between 20% and 35% of the grains are not declaredin a scheme that facilitates smuggling due to the difficulty in comparing sworn statements with the interior of ships carrying up to more than 40,000 tons.
Likewise, the particular legal situation in which the exploitation of the canal is found was described. It happens that from 1995 the Belgian company Jan De Nul and Emepa of the Argentine Gabriel Romero began to exploit through the firm “Hidrovia SA” dredging and beaconing and control of this channel, which brought them Profits for US$300 million per yearrenewing the concession for more than 20 years.
However, as he pointed out to Ámbito Matías Strasorier, from the Center for Agrarian Studies“in 2018 Gabriel Romero declared in the case of photocopies of notebooks having received bribes from the national government, which according to the Public Administration Law leads to the removal of the concession to the investigated companies.”
In this way, after various judicial presentations, the current Government decided in April 2021 not to renew the concession to Hidrovía S.A., with which it was decided to extend the concession to Jan de Nul for 90 daysand then, through the decree 427/2021 signed by Alberto Fernández, Santiago Cafiero and Alexis Guerreratransfer control to the General Administration of Ports (AGP) for a period of one yearwhere the collection of the canon was left to the State, in order to pay Jan de Nul for the tasks carried out.
The last chapter of this story was the “short tender for one year”, which was also annulled by the AGP, due to the company’s challenge. Rodhe Nielsen-EMEPA in the favorable result Jan de Nulfor which he paid a non-refundable fee of US$800,000.
Words of Maria de los Angeles Sacnun
After the tour, the CGP invited the former senator and current director of the Investment and Foreign Trade Bank (BICE), Maria de los Angeles Sacnunto share a few words with the producers attending the Atlas Center. There, Sacnun stressed the importance for the economy of “our Paraná River” and the trunk navigation system, adding the fact that the dissemination was by actors of the “national capital” and the real economy, who, he added, They are often invisible in the media.
Immediately afterwards, he highlighted the good functioning of the “field and industry alliance in a large part of the province of Santa Fe, where the productive units are characterized by farms and small producers”, which, he added, marks a difference with what mostly occurred in the Province of Buenos Aires and the south of the country. However, he added that “this model of agricultural communities very present in Santa Fe, did not prevent the installation of companies like Vincentín that led to the extractive production model, also closely linked to the favorable characteristics of the soil and human resources of this province” .
For this reason, Sacnun ruled out that “the enemy or adversary is a certain crop”, but rather “a model and country project that was in place in the previous four years”, adding the need for medium-sized chacarero producers to be included in the debatefor which he highlighted the importance of this meeting and the CGP.
Sacnun, who two years ago strongly supported the nationalization of Vicentín, remarked that as a government “we have lacked political definitions, as happened with Vicentín, where few voices raised the strategic importance for the national State of having a flagship flagship company that exports 9 percent of total grain production, especially in the face of the current system that includes smuggling and a Judiciary that, except for a few actors, works for concentrated economic power.”
Source: Ambito
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