The works to join the Pueblo Centenario pulp processing plant with the capital’s port terminal were completed.
The works of the Central Railway to join the pulp processing plant UPM 2 (UPM Paso de los Toros) with the Port of Montevideo They concluded in the last few hours, so locomotives could now circulate.
He legal representative of the Vía Central Group, Alejandro Ruibalassured this Monday at the Carnelli Station in the Bella Vista neighborhood (Montevideo) that the paper mill located in Centennial Town (Durazno) It was finally connected to the capital’s port terminal, according to El País.
“The physical work is finished, today the road already connects the port (of Montevideo) with the plant UPM (2)it means that railways and locomotives can now circulate,” explained the representative of the Vía Central Group, which is made up of the four companies that carried out the works.
However, he added that “the work is not yet finished because signaling and testing aspects are missing,” and so they will continue working on it.
Likewise, he stressed that “between now and the end of the year” the last stage of work will be completed, and that the system will come into operation in the first months of 2024.
In the month of July, the Minister of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP), José Luis Falerostated that the construction of the Central Railway track would be ready before Christmas.
The Central Railway could attract new passenger transport operators
Ruibal also said that the cargo train will have a maximum circulation speed of 80 kilometers per hour outside the city limits, and that “a passenger transport operator is going to come” that will offer a passenger train to link Montevideo with three locations of cannelloni: Peace, Stones and Progress.
In turn, he commented that the Central Railway project involves the putting into operation of some 343 kilometers of “very high standard” tracks, with some double sections, placed on routes, of which between 80% and 85% are already They existed.
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