Lula Da Silva’s government included the work as a priority, as well as the construction of the new international bridge.
The government of Brazil classified as a priority work the construction of a second bridge international between Yaguarón and Rio Branco, as well as the dredging and beaconing of the Merin Lagoon to specify the waterway, within the framework of the agreement reached months ago with Uruguay to advance a measure that will benefit the commercial exchange between both countries.
The agreement, signed in January by the President Luis Lacalle Pou and his Brazilian counterpart, Lula Da Silva, represents great transformation potential for the region, which could become a pole of economic development, benefiting the departments of long hill, rock and Thirty-three.
Confirmation came from the Uruguayan ambassador to Brazil, Guillermo Valles, who expressed through his Twitter account that it is “a historic day for the relationship with Brazil”, noting that “the president Lula next to the vice president (Geraldo) Alckmin, The government’s priority investment program has just been announced and it includes the second bridge over the Yaguaron River and the dredging and beaconing of the Merin Lagoon.
The waterway would facilitate the interconnection of watercourses from Rio Grande do Sul and the aforementioned Uruguayan departments, along with Maldonado and Lavalleja, according to what was published by Ceres in a report dating from 2019.
The waterway would improve competitiveness and could lower costs
If the work progresses, the start of which is already scheduled by the Uruguayan Government, will imply possible benefits such as the increase in the competitiveness due to access to new markets, as well as the probable lowering of prices for costs of transport for having a new logistic improvement that will favor national decentralization.
It is that the main fluvial exit routes would be to the south and west of the basin, impacting, among other sectors, the rice production of the area, which today must mobilize production by road until the Port of Montevideo, something that makes the final sale price more expensive and, therefore, complicates the competitiveness of the sector.
Source: Ambito
