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  • Exports from Asunción can now also reach La Plata on the waterways.

08.04.2021 By: Christian Doepgen


Artikel Nummer: 35837

To Brazil on a river barge

Two inland waterway shipping lines and ports in three countries have teamed up to promote Latin American exports.



The TecPlata terminal, an Argentinian subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) from the Philippines, recently welcomed the launch of a service of its own. The new link connects ports in Paraguay to the river La Plata; from there, in turn, the option offers additional connections to the most important maritime gateways on the coast of Brazil. The TecPlata entity ope­rates the solution together with the enterprises ­Independencia Shipping Lines (ISL) and Log-In Logistica Intermodal. It called at the Argentinian terminal for the first time on 9 March this year.

 

 

Overland directly to inland waterways

ISL, an inland shipping line that connects hubs located in Uruguay, Argentina as well as in Paraguay, will be in charge of ope­rating the route, which runs between Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, and La Plata, the capital city of the Argentinian pro­vince of Buenos Aires. From there are connections to and from the national capital. ISL deploys three of its own barges; between them they offer total carrying capacities of ­approximately 510 teu. The Brazilian cabotage company Log-In then takes over the transportation of the cargo on the section between La Plata and the Brazilian ports mentioned above.

 

Log-In offers its customers both canal as well as coastal shipping options; its services connect trade requirements in the entire Mercosur region. TecPlata hopes that its new inland shipping solution represents but a first step in shifting to the waterways substantial volumes of consignments exported from Paraguay by road so far.