A Uruguayan delegationcomposed of authorities from the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP) and National Port Administration (ANP) offered Brazilian industrialists the possibility of exporting through the Port of Montevideo.
Last Thursday, Uruguayan leaders presented to the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Fiergs-RS) the project that offers to unite the Rivera Dry Port with the terminal Montevideo through a railway that would be ready for the first quarter of next year.
With this, the Brazilian industrialists of the Fiergs-RS – one of the main nuclei of the industry of the State of South Rio Grande – would have the possibility of transferring exportable goods to the port of Rivera, which would then be transported to the Montevideo terminal to finally be exportable by sea.
Present at the event were the MTOP minister, José Luis Falero, the mayor of Rivera, Richard Sanders and a delegation from the ANP, composed of the vice president, Daniel Loureirothe deputy manager of the National Port System, Nelson Fernandez and the advisor for the Puerto Seco de Rivera project, Alejandro Vazquez.
At the meeting, as confirmed by El País, other projects that promote bilateral relations with the South American giant were also discussed. Among them, the binational airport of Rivera, the Laguna Merín-Laguna de los Patos Waterway or the Mauá bridge in Rio Branco.
In this sense, although still the Rivera Dry Port The rail connection with the port of Montevideo has not materialized – although it is expected to be ready by April or May of next year – the Uruguayan representatives highlighted that the objective was to present Brazilian industrialists with a tangible future possibility for them to consider the port. of Montevideo as a complement to its infrastructures.
Hopes for the dry port
At the beginning of June, the head of the ANP, Juan Curbelostated before the press that it is a “very important” project, through which land of 25 hectares in that bordering department, seeking to develop “a customs port facility” that will be “very important for capture cargo from the north of the regionand in particular from southern Brazilto be operated by the port of Montevideo”.
The dry port is “a little piece of the Port of Montevideo that moves (physically) to the border with Brazil“explained the leader, a port area that has all the legal powers and requires Customs and Prefecture.
In recent days, the ANP formally presented to the Rivera Municipality a plan for the “recategorization” of the land. Once the departmental authorization is obtained, the entity will proceed with the beginning of the fencing and the beginning of works on the property.
From the entity, they hope that the administrative authorization of the Municipality is ready before the end of the year, to proceed to find operators interested in providing their services, and that the connectivity of the port of Montevideo is complemented through the railways and the new works of the Oscar D. Gestido International Airportin Rivera.
Source: Ambito
