He Montevideo port ended 2022 with a activity record by mobilizing more than one million TEUS (measure equivalent to a 20-foot container) and operated more than 17 million tons. At the national level, the seven Uruguayan ports mobilized almost 20 million tons, with levels similar to 2021.
The 2022 annual report of the National Administration of Ports (ANP) made a breakdown of all the merchandise that was operated in the different parts of the country during the past year.
In the period between January and December of last year, the port of Montevideo mobilized 1,084,812 TEUS with a year-on-year increase of 11% and constituted a record year in the volume of merchandise captured. The operation included export, import and transshipment containers of merchandise that came mainly from Paraguayan.
In the case of tons, it operated 17,489,874 (between bulk and containerized cargo), remaining practically at the same levels as in 2021, with a year-on-year decrease of 3%.
In second place of activity was the port of new palmyra. At the official pier, 2,129,647 tons were moved between exports (40%), imports (23%) and transits and transshipments (37%) that arrive through the waterway.
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The port of paysandu received 116,760 tons of cargo. They were 70,703 for export and 46,057 for import.
In Juan Lacaze 4,629 cargo were moved, mainly in transit. For him cologne port 2,898 tons passed, between export, import and transit. In Fray Bentos the activity included 216,432 tons with export cargo and in Dove 1,508 tons were operated.
In total, the seven ports mobilized 19,961,748 tons, practically at the same levels as in 2021 when they were just over 20 million.
Dredging in Montevideo
One of the chapters of the annual report refers to the deepening of the access channel to the port of Montevideo. He explained that the ANP has among its objectives the expansion and deepening of the access channel to 14 meters. For this, it has carried out and processed the executive project of the reference work, has hired new searches and studies of soils of the access channel and sent to the Ministry of Transport the environmental studies, background, technical material and project.
Parallel to what is indicated in the annual report, Uruguay has already presented the project to provide greater access to the port of Montevideo before the Administrative Commission of the Río de la Plata (CARP). The Uruguayan delegation presented the formal request to the commission on Thursday, November 3 of last year.
At the beginning of this year it already received the first objections. The Argentine delegation, chaired by Diego Tettamanti, presented a document to the CARP in which he formulated 28 considerations. Uruguay must now submit the requested information.
The Argentine document recalled that while this is pending “the 180-day period provided for the Argentine party to issue an opinion on the project will not begin to run.”
