This is PorTren’s operations and maintenance center, which will support the service that will link Montevideo and Paso de los Toros.
The operations and maintenance center that will support the service of the Central Railway that will unite Montevideo and Bull Pass It will be inaugurated next Monday the 6th, a key step for the advancement of a project that has accumulated delays.
Tasks are fundamental to the plan UPM 2, which seeks to improve the logistics costs of its new plant, since it will be able to transport the pulp directly to the specialized port terminal. In addition, it constitutes an example of “environmental leadership,” as highlighted by the authorities of the Finnish company.
The center of By train It has a 3,000 square meter workshop, equipped to service the entire fleet of rolling stock and supported by an administrative area of 1,000 square meters, where it will carry out its tasks. DBCC Transport Uruguay, which will employ about 75 people directly, trained mainly in Europe, for efficient and safe operation.
It is expected that the president will be present at the event, which will take place at kilometer 39,500 of Route 5, Juanicó. Luis Lacalle Pou; the Secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado; the Minister of Transportation and Public Works, José Luis Falero; and his counterpart from Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres.
A million-dollar investment and numerous delays
The work of Central Railway include an investment of 40 million dollars to build 273 kilometers of railways between the Port of Montevideo and Bull Pass, facilitating the circulation of freight trains at 80 kilometers per hour and 22.5 tons per axle.
His arrival was scheduled for last July 24, but there were some differences between the Executive power and the Montevideo Municipality that drives Carolina Cosse. Even in the midst of the differences, the deputy for National Party, Daniel Martínez, He assured that the IM requested “more than 20 works,” in a maneuver that he described as “blackmail.”
Once these obstacles have been overcome, the government estimates that the initial stage of the work will be operational before December 24, the day on which testing and signaling will begin, so that, a couple of months later, operation will begin.
Source: Ambito
