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The Chamber of Exporters, Logistics and Investment Promotion of Santa Cruz (Cadex) calculated that its sector loses up to 300,000 dollars a day due to trucks stopped on the border with Chile, where there are around 1,500 units, a problem that has been registered since the end of Last December, because the motorized capacity decreased by 50% due to the greater control of positive cases of Covid-19. From this Thursday, Inlasa begins the daily taking of PCR tests in Tambo Quemado.
“We have calculated on costs that are around between 250,000 and 300,000 dollars per day for that contingent of trucks, but not only that, the stranded trucks are making it impossible for that fleet to arrive and pick up imported cargo, that is, the impact is on the logistics, to trade and it is to exports with extra cost”, said the general manager of Cadex, Martín Salces.
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He added that definitive solutions were proposed to the Government, such as establishing approved laboratories at points on the border with Chile, although he also considered that the efforts being made will not resolve the new restrictions that may occur in the future, since the Covid-19 arrived to to stay.
At the height of Tambo Quemado, this Thursday immense lines of trucks were observed again, totaling approximately 1,500 units, waiting to cross the border.
the encounter
A delegation from the Vice Ministry of Foreign Trade and the National Institute of Health Laboratories (Inlasa) of Bolivia, the Regional Presidential delegation and the Regional Ministerial Secretariat of Health of Arica and Parinacota, of Chile, held a meeting yesterday in which it was agreed that Starting this Thursday, Inlasa will take daily PCR tests in Tambo Quemado, and then will issue the electronic transmission of results to the Administration of the Chungará Border Complex.
It was also agreed that from Friday, January 28, the number of health personnel assigned to the health customs office in Chungará will be increased and thus speed up care for carriers.
In addition, from Saturday the capacity of the transport units in Chungará will be increased.
