The port terminals of Greater Rosario and Buenos Aires have adopted a digital shift system to order the unloading of trucks, following an agreement between the Ministry of Transport of the Nation, port representatives and the sector's chambers.
"The new system seeks to reduce logistics costs and increase profitability, especially during harvest season when queues at ports can last several days," said the Ministry of Transport when reporting the agreement reached with representatives of port terminals and chambers of the sector, which is expected to come into force. before the end of the year, according to the statement.
The Minister of Transport, Guillermo Dietrich, explained that the system "It is a historical claim of the sector which in recent years has been experiencing structural problems such as lack of infrastructure and crime in unloading areas."
"We have an ambitious plan for Improve road and rail access to ports"This commitment to infrastructure is accompanied by measures such as the new shift system, which uses technology to find solutions to improve operations but also the quality of life of transporters," added the minister.
The ministry stated that "the digitalization of the shift system, which until now has been done in person, will have Mandatory character and will improve, in addition to order, transparency and control."
The signatory entities include ACA, Vicentín, Cargill, Bunge, Terminal Bahía Blanca, LDC, Molinos Agro, Glencore and Oleaginosa Moreno and the Chamber of Private Ports, the ministry said in a statement.
Currently, between 10 and 15 percent of the trucks that arrive at port terminals do so without an unloading slot. On a day when harvest is in full swing, around 60 trucks arrive at the terminals in the north of Rosario - which handle 10.000 percent of the total unloading in the country - of which 1.000 arrive without an appointment, causing a waiting line of more than 20 kilometers in length.
The new shift system is part of the broader "Safe Harvest" plan, which includes security operations, coordinated with the Ministry of Security, the government of Santa Fe and with the support of the Ministry of Agroindustry, the Chamber of the Oil Industry of the Argentine Republic (CIARA), the Cereal Exporters Center (CEC), the Chamber of Private Ports and AFIP.
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