The Uruguay River Administrative Commission (CARU) reported that on Wednesday (7.03.2018), dredging work began on the Uruguay River at Paso Tres Cruces, 20 kilometers from the Port of Fray Bentos.
The work was commissioned by CARU to the Belgian company Jan De Nul NV, and the dredger Amerigo Vespucci, which is already working in the waters of the Uruguay River, left yesterday after noon from the Port of Fray Bentos to the first step listed in the construction project.
Dredging works in Paso Tres Cruces, 20 km from Puerto Paysandú
"We are very pleased with this great step we are taking in an infrastructure project to reduce the costs of transport and export of Argentine and Uruguayan products," said the president of the Argentine Delegation at CARU, Mauro Vazón, while verifying the beginning of the tasks on the Dredge, in the Tres Cruces pass, together with his counterpart from the Uruguayan Delegation, Gastón Silbermann.
The work has an estimated completion period of 8 months, so it is estimated that by the end of October the passages will be dredged and the Uruguay River will become a true waterway, commercially navigated. In this regard, Vazón explained that "the contract involves four years of work, the first of them dedicated to deepening the navigable waterway, and the three subsequent years to maintaining the depth achieved."
Mauro Vazón Photo: Argentine Foreign Ministry
Vazón assured that “in keeping with the commitment of President Mauricio Macri, we are working to promote the infrastructure works necessary to be competitive at a regional and international level, generating investment opportunities to have more genuine work, a higher level of exports with appropriate logistics, from port operators to producers, industrialists, maritime agencies, all operating from the ports of the Uruguay River to definitively develop Argentina.”
The project entrusted to CARU by the States Parties, includes the opening dredging, its maintenance and the marking of the Uruguay River between Km 0 and Km 187,1 at 23 feet of navigation (25 feet deep), including the access channel to the Port of Concepción del Uruguay. Also, the channels between km 187,1 and km 206,8, Port of Paysandú, at 17 feet of navigation (19 feet deep).
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