This Monday, January 23, the first large ship arrived at the port of Tumaco with a total of 1,260.00 gallons of fuel in order to attend to the emergency in the south of the country. After download, the ship immediately returned to the port of Buenaventura to carry out a new load that takes 10 hours, which means that every three days there will be 1,500,000 gallons in Tumaco for a total average of 500,000 gallons of fuel per day for southwestern Colombia.
(See: The Pan-American highway would be opened, in Rosas (Cauca), at the end of February).
“The daily demand for fuel in the department of Nariño is 440,000 gallons. As of the arrival of deep-draft ships like the one we are expecting today, we are going to guarantee the supply for the department and thus reduce the serious effects of this crisis resulting from the closure of the Pan-American Highway. So then, the Port of Tumaco once again becomes the ideal solution to the complex situation that the department of Cauca is going through due to fuel shortages.”, affirmed Harry Kahn, president of the Tumaco Port Society.
With this dynamism, the goal of the port is that, by the end of this month of January, 8 million gallons of fuel enter through the Port of Tumaco and thus regularize the operation and supply for the departments of Nariño and Cauca.
(See: The passage of trucks that were dammed in Ipiales, Nariño begins).
Additionally, the Port of Tumaco has a capacity of 140,000 tons for all types of bulk such as fertilizers and cement and from the Port to other regions it will be possible to send potatoes, coconuts, coffee, rice and sugar, food that is dammed in the department of Nariño and that could leave in the next few days towards the interior of the country.
“In addition, the Port of Tumaco has the capacity to store 10,000 tons of food indoors that distributors could use to reduce the food shortage that Nariño is going through.”, they indicate in a statement.
(See: Unions ask to declare an Economic and Social Emergency in Nariño).
Finally, the Society calls on the Government to make the promise made by President Gustavo Petro in the Council of Ministers to raise a negotiation to expand exports and imports through the Port, in addition to increasing the dredging of 13 meters deep in order to receive vessels of greater draft.
“Once and for all, position Tumaco and its port as the vector of change to move from an extractive economy to one based on transformation for the entire department of Nariño, southern Cauca and Putumayo”, they finish.
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