Overview
- Santa Fe leaders set in motion a public tender to bring a private operator to the city’s container terminal, aiming to restore full service and attract new investment.
- Officials said the bid terms will be drafted in 60 to 90 days with public oversight, required capital spending, cargo targets, and an initial 20,000 m2 area that could grow by 10,000 m2.
- At the XX Argentine Inland Waterway Forum in Rosario, provincial leaders said Argentina’s trade edge runs through Santa Fe’s 849 km stretch of the 1,500 km Paraná–Paraguay waterway, a core route for exports.
- National ports director Iñaki Arreseygor praised the push and said his office would defend Santafesino interests in the coming concession for the waterway.
- After the national government announced a bid process, Santa Fe sought talks in Buenos Aires and pitched the province as a logistics hub to turn the waterway into a driver of value-added exports.