The General Director of Customs, Guillermo Michel, and the Minister of Transportation of the Nation, Diego Giuliano, signed today (03.05.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX) a Collaboration agreement which will improve the control system of the main waterway of the Paraná and Paraguay rivers.
«It will focus on the inspection activities carried out by the General Port Administration (AGP) and Customs in a coordinated manner", as officially reported.
The agreement will enhance the control capabilities of both organizations through the exchange of strategic information and the joint use of their monitoring and traceability control systems, which include georeferenced monitoring mechanisms, CCTV circuits and satellite tracking of vessels, among other tools.
"This agreement between Customs and the AGP represents cooperation in the field of information gathering," he said. Diego Giuliano. He added: "We will be able to generate an imaging system and complete the control circuit in this process that the Argentine government has carried out on the Paraná-Paraguay main waterway - which has meant lifting the veil on an issue that for a long time, very few knew in depth."
For its part, Guillaume Michel He added: “I would like to thank the Ministry of Transport and the AGP for making this information available to us. The improvements in control capacity that this agreement will bring will ensure that the dollars that agricultural producers earn with so much effort will strengthen the reserves and be invested in production and employment.”
Likewise, Jose Beni, AGP auditor, stressed: “Sharing information with Customs will allow us to verify what we collect and, in accordance with the Ministry's transparency policies, make it available to the public via the web. There is no greater transparency than publicizing what happens on a daily basis in such an important navigation area.”
Thus, Customs will be able to access the vessel records prepared by the Ministry of Transport, accessing precise data regarding the transit of the main foreign trade route of our country..
El agreement It will be valid for three years and will be renewable. automatically for successive periods of identical duration.
The signing, which took place at the new headquarters of the AGP, was also attended by Tomás Vernet, deputy auditor of the AGP; Rosana Lodovico, deputy director general of Metropolitan Customs Operations; Rubén Pavé, deputy director general of Customs Operations of the Interior; Diego Figueroa, deputy director general of Customs Control; deputy director general of Customs Control; Maximiliano Luengo, director of Customs Process Reengineering and Guillermo Cabezas Fernández, advisor to the General Directorate of Customs.
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