Amid a growing discomfort due to the deterioration of road infrastructure in Argentina, the Government Nacional reaffirmed his decision to maintain the tenders and outsourcing scheme for the national route network.
Despite the claims from provinces, productive sectors and construction actors, the Government He maintains that he will not modify his strategy: he will tend to 20% traveled from the road network and outsource the remaining 80% maintenance, considered not profitable.
The President Javier Milei He has publicly defended this model, arguing that he seeks to eradicate historical “curros” in national roads. In that sense, the Government has already begun to implement the Bot System (Build, Operate and Transfer), through which private companies are responsible for operating and maintaining routes in exchange for collecting tolls, and then transferred to the State.
Of the 40,000 kilometers of national routes, 10,000 will be tendered under this scheme. These are trunk and tranite corridors, considered profitable for the private sector. The rest, about 30,000 kilometers, will be outsourced by open tenders, in which private operators will be able to submit proposals to rehabilitate and maintain less commercially commercial sections.
The state of national routes has been subject to strong questions. Governors of different regions, gathered in the Federal Investment Council (CFI), promoted a project to eliminate fiduciary funds financed with the Liquid Fuel Tax, considering that the National Government is not executing them accordingly.
From Santa Fe, for example, posters were installed in the accesses to national routes warning about their “catastrophic state” and recommending drivers to use provincial routes, which are in better conditions.
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This claim is replicated in other provinces, where it is noted that the lack of investment in road infrastructure is affecting production, transport and safety. Nicolás Pino, head of the Argentine Rural Society, expressed concern during a meeting with Milei In La Rural: “It is of no use to produce more if you can not transport it later”, in reference to the logistics impact of the poor state of the routes.
The largest controversy revolves around 80% of the national road network that will not be tendered directly. These 30,000 kilometers, considered non -profitable, could be without significant investment if the outsourcing are not specified. Entrepreneurs of the road sector warn that the deterioration will be exponential if continuous maintenance is not carried out, and that the total repair cost will be much greater in the future.
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