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Hidrovía

The Plata Basin is the part of South America drained by the Rio de la Plata itself and its tributaries.

It covers an area of ​​about 3,170,000 square kilometers, making it the second largest in South America and the fifth in the world, and covers territories of five countries Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay.

It is geopolitically important in America of the South, it covers areas with different hydrographic characteristics, economic and sociocultural: the basin of the Paraguay River, the El Alto Parana, of the Uruguay River and the Parana middle and lower.

Key path to development of
Cuenca del Plata

Paraguay Parana waterway

GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS

La Hidrovía Paraguay-Paraná tiene una extensión de 3.442 kms. Se extiende desde Puerto de Cáceres (MT), Brasil hasta el Puerto de Nueva Palmira, Uruguay. Abarca territorios de Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay.

WATERWAY PARAGUAY PARANA

ADVANTAGE

Waterway is the most efficient means to interconnect the entire region.

Its development directly benefits the production of the five member countries of the Basin.

Waterway Agreement (Las Lenas, June 1992) commits the five countries to "facilitate navigation and river transport .. by establishing a common regulatory framework, conducive to the development, modernization and efficiency of such operations" (the 1st art)

Freedom of navigation: "The signatory countries recognize each other, the freedom of navigation throughout the Hidrovía" (the 4th art)

Legal aspects

The legal framework of the Paraguay - Parana is composed of
- Agreement "Santa Cruz de la Sierra" on River Transport through the Paraguay-Paraná (Puerto de Cáceres - Puerto de Nueva Palmira)
- 7 Additional Protocols
- 14 Regulations

Agreement "Santa Cruz de la Sierra", was signed in June 1992 in Las Lenas, Argentina

It was ratified and entered into force by the governments of the five countries of the Plata Basin on February 13, 1995

It is part of the 1980 Montevideo Treaty of ALADI

Has flexibility as a legal instrument (Partial Agreement)

The bodies of the Agreement are:
- The Intergovernmental Waterway Committee (C.I.H.), organ of the Treaty of the Plata Basin, is the political body
The Commission of the Agreement (C.A.) is the technical body.

Operational aspects

In the Paraguay - Parana sailing with two large groups of boats:

Convoys Thrust: consists of several barges without an engine, hooked together and pushed by a tugboat (similar rivers navigation USA)

Self-propelled: Similar to small cargo ships (simile river navigation in Europe)

The river transport efficiency translates into:

Cost savings

Rational management of large volumes and freight multimodal safe

Responsibility in caring for the environment

increased investment

Variety of industrial specializations

Viability of Mediterranean economies

economic and social integration

COMPARISON

Logistics in Cuenca vs. Mississippi waterway

1 convoy transports 30,000 tonnes load
Equivalent to 24 full trains and 1,000 trucks.

1 Tn Tn one fuel charge is traversed:
barge -991 km
by train - 769 km
truck - 241 km

Mississippi waterway

- Flow: 400 to 450 MMT / yr
- Coverage: 3 million km2
- Greater integration of rail logistics and truck
- Accessibility through large number of terminals

Paraná - Paraguay

- Flow current 20 MMT / Potential more than 50 MMT
- Coverage: 3.2 million km2
- Great possibilities to rationalize and rail transport rodoviario
- Great potential to optimize and expand the current terminal system
- It requires coordination among the Basin countries eficientización regulations that facilitate and encourage inland waterway infrastructure investments

Achievements

Since 1988:

- The cargo carried increased from 700,000 tn. more than 20 million annually.
- The cost of freight on a stretch of 2,500 km. It was reduced on average by 50% from Canal Tamengo (Bolivia) to ports in Argentina or Uruguay.
- The fleet has increased considerably, from 200 barges in the beginning to more than 2,000 today.
- The private sector has made investments that currently exceed 2 billion dollars.

priorities

- To improve the navigability of the system:

- Dredging, markings and signage in general
- Homogeneización del sistema de instrucción para tripulantes, común a los 5 países - Esquema racional de inspecciones y controles – consenso 5 países – conforme a lo estipulado por la CIH
- Optimize regulations regarding permitted dimensions for convoys.
- Economy and sustainability of the system
- Generation of investment and work
- Regional integration
- Growth Potential
- Increased integration of sea and river terminals in the Middle and Lower Parana and Uruguay.

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The CPTCP is a civil association of international, non-profit and is composed of owners and private operators of the five countries of the Plata Basin, with permanent headquarters of the agency in the city of Montevideo.


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