He Port of Montevideo closed 2022 with a new activity record: last year it mobilized more than one million TEUS —each one equivalent to a 20-foot container— and operated more than 17 million tons. Throughout Uruguay, the seven ports mobilized almost 20 million tons.
2022 was not a record only in exports, the ports also had an activity that reached historical levels. especially that of Montevideo, as stated by the National Administration of Ports (ANP) in your annual report
In this sense, between January and December of last year, mobilized 1,084,812 TEUSwhich in turn represented a 11% year-over-year increase and it became a record year in the volume of merchandise captured. The operation included export, import and transshipment containers of merchandise that came mainly from Paraguayan.
Considering the quantities in tons, the port of Montevideo handled 17,489,874 —between bulk cargo and containers. In this case, it remained practically at the same levels as in 2021, with a year-on-year decrease of 3%.
How was the activity in the other ports?
The second place in activity was held by the port of New Palmyra. At the official dock, 2,129,647 tons were moved between exports (40%), imports (23%) and transits and transshipments (37%) that arrive through the waterway.
The port of Paysandu, which received 116,760 tons of cargo. They were 70,703 for export and 46,057 for import.
In Juan Lacaze 4,629 cargo were moved, mainly in transit. through the port of Cologne 2,898 tons passed, between export, import and transit. Meanwhile in Fray Bentos the activity included 216,432 tons with export cargo and in Dove 1,508 tons were operated.
In total, the seven ports mobilized 19,961,748 tons, almost the same levels as in 2021 when they were just over 20 million.
Dredging in Montevideo
The annual report of the ANP also refers in one of its chapters to the deepening of the access channel to the Port of Montevideo. There it states that its objectives are the expansion and deepening to 14 meters, for which the executive project of the reference work was processed, new searches and soil studies of the access channel were contracted and sent to the Ministry of Transport environmental studies, background, technical material and project.
In parallel, Uruguay has already presented the project to provide greater depth to the access to the port before the Río de la Plata Administrative Commission (CARP). The Uruguayan delegation presented the formal request to the commission on Thursday, November 3 of last year, and received 28 considerations from the Argentine delegation.
Source: Ambito
