President Luis Lacalle Pou led the inauguration of the liquid cargo terminal of Navios Logistics in the Nueva Palmira free zone, which included an investment of 30 million dollars that includes a dock, which will receive tanker barges, connections from the tank farm to the docks and auxiliary facilities.
The new terminal has a storage capacity of 37,000 cubic meters, with tanks designed for the handling of biofuels and vegetable oils exported from Uruguay and the region. In addition, the company plans to increase storage capacity to about 140,000 cubic meters.
Navios South American Logistics is one of the largest infrastructure and logistics companies in the region, focused on the region’s river system. Paraguay-Paraná Waterway, one of the main navigable river systems in South America, and in the cabotage trade along the southeastern coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
An imposing property
Arriving at the imposing property located meters from the route allowed us to see what was the important bet that was made. Two giant tents that received hundreds of guests, bars with drinks and non-alcoholic beverages, waiters coming from one end to the other and a relevant display of protocol and security so that absolutely nothing failed.
The president of the group, Angeliki Frangou, together with the CEO, George Achniotis, Both of Greek nationality, they personally received the most important guests.
There were several executives of that nationality who were present at the event, some residing in our country and others in Buenos Aires, having in fact a “VIP” section to follow the event. Among them, attention was drawn to the presence of the two highest authorities of the Greek Orthodox Church, who crossed the Silver river to bless the inauguration.
The three axes of Lacalle Pou: nature, infrastructure and culture
The president gave a message that was outside the established agenda, based on three points: the mother nature, the infrastructure and the culture national. “The first does not determine you, but it conditions you,” she reflected and added that in the case of our country, Mother Nature “blesses and helps.”
“The port destination of transportation and Logistics “He accompanied us and made us forge ourselves even in difficult times,” mentioned Lacalle Pou and added: “The road infrastructure is seeing important progress, but there will always be things to do.”
Going into more political concepts, the president stated that “national culture is decisive when choosing governments” and when “limiting governments.” “I think that we rulers don’t have to worry about what we are going to leave behind, we have to worry about what we do today. We have 326 days of government left and the 326 days of government we are going to comply with the Constitution, We are going to comply with the law,” he concluded.
For his part, the Minister of Transportation and Public Works, José Luis Falero, valued the country’s logistical development based on its strategic location. “New Palmyra and all the ports of the Uruguay They have an enormous privilege that we must take advantage of by improving our infrastructure,” he highlighted.
Millionaire work and investment
“To carry out this project, with an investment of nearly 30 million dollars, 450 construction workers were present at certain times during the work. “It is a project that was a great challenge both for us and for the companies that participated in its construction,” he noted. Rubén Martínez Baeza, vice president director of Navios South American Logistic.
“We have allocated this million-dollar figure for this future expansion. Our goal is to satisfy all the needs of our clients by offering a first-class service. We could not have achieved all of this without the support of the Uruguayan government and local authorities, whom we thank,” he mentioned in turn. Achniotis.
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Challenge and opportunity for ANP
He president of the National Ports Administration, Juan Curbelo, stated in dialogue with Ambit that “all this infrastructure is committed to and aspires to capture cargo from the region. That is the meaning of the port logic of our country, not only for our cargoes and exports, but to be able to capture all the movement that is being generated now and that will be generated in the development of the economy.”
“That is the challenge: that Uruguay definitively transforms into a logistics hub. We often talk about a hub in terms of the movement of containers, but we have before us what the cellulose, In this case what is the liquid bulk, what is the iron ore. So they are very important investments, they are investments, in this case private ones, which are accompanied by public investments,” highlighted the leader.
In this regard, Curbelo added: “In this period of government, the ANP in the department of Cologne has made investments of over 40 million dollars. So public, private, we all think about the same objective, and that is definitely Uruguay “It becomes a service platform, and for that we obviously have to have the best infrastructure.”
The ministers of Foreign Affairs also participated in the opening ceremony, Omar Paganini Job, Pablo Mieres; and Livestock, Agriculture and Fishing, Fernando Mattos.
Source: Ambito
