At the commemoration, the Minister of Transportation, José Luis Falero, pointed out that the Government includes among its objectives improving port services, optimizing the port of Montevideo, expanding capacities in the terminals of the Uruguay River, reducing transportation costs and completing the works in Capuro. “Using multimodal transport is a challenge that President Lacalle Pou raised from day one,” he stressed.
Lacalle Pou was accompanied by the Vice President of the Republic, Beatriz Argimón; the Deputy Secretary of the Presidency, Rodrigo Ferrés; the Ministers of Labor and Social Security, Pablo Mieres, and Tourism, Remo Monzeglio; the Undersecretary of Transportation, Juan José Olaizola; the president of the National Ports Administration (ANP), Juan Curbelo, and the head of the Navigation Center, Mónica Ageitos.
“The Navigation Center is an institution that has always shown commitment to the country”, cataloged Falero, who assured that the Government’s message is clear: “Open the doors to the world as the best support for fellow citizens”. In the same vein, he added: “Using multimodal transport is a challenge that President Lacalle Pou raised from day one.”
He also pointed out that the objectives are to improve port services and procedures, strengthen foreign trade, work so that international consideration regarding Uruguay maintains it as a preferential partner, relocate the passenger terminal of the port of Montevideo, and increase the dredging of the port of Fray Bentos at 32 feet, to decompress the Nueva Palmira terminal and reduce transportation costs.
The hierarch, in addition, assured that in Uruguay the commitments and contracts assumed by the State with the companies are fulfilled.
Falero valued that the port of Montevideo reached a depth of 13 meters with the ANP’s own dredges, which the Government plans to reach 14 meters of dredging; and he highlighted the works of the Capurro port, where more than 103 million dollars are invested. The end of these works is scheduled for September 2023.
In his speech, he stressed that the port of the country’s capital increased the movement of containers by 27% in 2021, and that the prospects are maintained for 2022. He also valued the investment of the private sector in works in the port of Montevideo.
For its part, Ageitos reported that the ports of Montevideo and Nueva Palmira moved 50% of containers in transit in 2021, which consolidates them as devices that concentrate cargo from different origins and national and foreign destinations, for subsequent redistribution.
He added that in that same year, the private port community contributed more than 56 million dollars to the National Ports Administration, which represented 35% of total income.
The Navigation Center is a non-profit civil association, with legal status, founded on July 28, 1916, and is the only business chamber for maritime-port activity that brings together shipping agents, port operators, terminals and warehouses intra-port and extra-port. Presidency
