The National Ports Administration (ANP) of Uruguay had a record 2023 in both container movement in the Port of Montevideo as in billing income. For the president of the organization, Juan Curbelo, “it is very important to have achieved this objective” within the framework of the strategy of turning the country into a hub port region of.
The news of the new container movement record in the Port of Montevideo —1,200,000 teus, the size of a simple container— was known a few days ago, but continues to be an important achievement in port and logistical terms for the country. “There have been three consecutive years of teus growth,” Curbelo highlighted in conversation with Radio Carve: in 2021, the largest movement in the history of the company was achieved for the first time. ANP with 970,000 teus; In 2022, the historical barrier of one million teus was surpassed, and 2023 marked the new record.
“It is very important with what it has to do with that strategic vision “which is being recognized through the numbers and the particular movement of containers,” said the head of the ANP, and particularly highlighted that it occurred during a year in which, although the exports and imports They were good, they did not have the volume of 2022, and they still exceeded the record registered in that year.
“We rely a lot on transits, and this is very relevant because that is where the services that our ports provide, the productivity and efficiency, because that cargo is cargo from the region, from third countries that can perfectly use other ports,” Curbelo explained.
Regarding the results for the 2023 financial year, although the final figures for the year have not yet been finalized, the leader announced that “from the point of view of the organizational chart It’s going to be the best year in the history of the “ANP.”
The role of TCP and public docks
Asked about the role of Cuenca del Plata Terminal (TCP)the specialized container terminal, in the 2023 results, Curbelo highlighted its productivity, but also highlighted that the growth in recent years “was due to the readjustment and normal operation of the port between the specialized terminal and the public docks.”
In that sense, he placed special emphasis on the expansion work that began in September and will involve an investment of more than 600 million dollars: “It will position the Port from Montevideo as one of the most important of Latin America”, He expressed, and announced that “by April we will already be seeing important progress in the development of the infrastructure of the work.”
“This sustained and very important growth had a lot to do with the Political vision and the port management. And in that sense, obviously the terminal has influenced a lot of the movements carried out, without prejudice to the important role played by public dock operators such as the company Montecon, which has also had a good year,” said Curbelo.
The president of the ANP also highlighted the connectivity of the Port of Montevideowith the addition of a weekly service to the north of Europe and another to Southeast Asia during the administration, and the imminent addition of a third service to the Gulf of Mexico. “We have improved and incorporated new services that allow our exports to go out into the world to compete in very good conditions,” she said.
“Today the Port of Montevideo “It has excellent connectivity with increasingly larger ships, because larger ships are coming and we are preparing to receive larger ships, in line with being a hub port that receives cargo from third countries and from here they go out to the world,” Curbelo explained and concluded: “We needed works that are being carried out to definitively position the port as the main port in the Silver riverthat has been and is our main objective.”
Source: Ambito
