The government would have the project planned, but the political decisions necessary to begin construction would be missing.
The main spa in the department of cannelloni —and one of the most important for the season Uruguay—, Atlantis, prepares for the possibility of having his first Leisure port, sports port, an initiative that allows boost tourism local and promote the arrival of other investments.
“Atlántida was one of the starlets of the “Uruguayan tourism.” This is how he described the city Daniel Cervini, group leader Cervini and president of the Atlantis Promotion League. However, as he pointed out in the Entrepreneurs here program, starting in the mid-1980s “it stagnated.” Nowadays, local tourism entrepreneurs are working to revive the resort of Cannelloni.
“Atlántida does not have sanitation, and that significantly affects the establishment of private investments, Cervini acknowledged. For the businessman, the investment conditions are not given in the city because there are no infrastructure, and pointed out that the absence of the State is responsible in this sense, although he announced that they are working together with the National Administration of State Sanitary Works (OSE) in this sense.
Along the same lines, he highlighted that the Leisure port, sports port, A project that the Atlántida tourism sector has been asking for for a long time to boost local activity, could help attract investors. “It is a city that It is facing the sea and has no port”, Cervini pointed out, and as an example, he listed the number of ports built by the State that the other coastal departments have in the area of the Río de la Plata and the Atlantic: “Cologne It has five ports that were made by the State, Saint Joseph has two, Montevideo has two; Cannelloni, zero. Maldonado has two and Rocha It has one. Why don’t we have a port?,” she emphasized.
Asked about the status of the marina in Atlántida, the president of the Development League explained that “all the technical studies and the National Hydrography Directorate “He has the work planned.” “The only thing left is to decide to do it, we are in a position to Uruguay”, Cervini stated.
A new port in Rocha
The government plans the construction of a passenger port on the Merin lagoon that unites the department of Rocha with the city of Porto Alegrein Brazil.
The mayor of Rocha, Alejo Umpiérrezexplained to Channel 5 that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) gave approval on the viability of the river terminal in the binational lagoon, which includes, in addition to Rocha, the departments of Long Hill and Thirty-threeand to the Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul.
Umpiérrez He explained that the project, which was sent to be studied by ECLAC, would be possible from the construction of the waterway Uruguay–Braziland the creation of a navigation route of about 800 kilometers between Laguna Merín and the Ducks Lagoon in Rio Grande do Sul.
“The national government has promoted with great force and with very good harmony with Brazil what is the waterway for the transportation of cargo that would leave through the port of Río Grande (del Sur)”, he explained Umpiérrez to that medium.
The departmental government believes that passenger transport could reach from Porto Alegre to an area located at the mouth of the San Miguel stream, a few kilometers from the binational city of Chuy.
Source: Ambito
