Overview
- On Tuesday May 19 ANPyN opened the economic bids for the Vía Navegable Troncal and published that Jan De Nul–Servimagnus and DEME each offered the tariff floor of US$3.80 for the initial stage.
- Jan De Nul holds a clear technical lead from the prior evaluation with 66.20 points versus DEME’s 42.14, and the final award will weight economic proposals at 60 percent of the score.
- The concession covers dragado, redragado, balizamiento, signalling and modernization from km 1,238 of the Paraná to km 239.1 of the Punta Indio channel under a 25‑year, private‑risk contract with projected investments near USD 10 billion.
- The government says the minimum tariff would cut current peajes by about 13.5 percent, saving users an estimated USD 35–40 million a year, but the process faces legal sensitivity after a new PIA dictamen was sent to Fiscalía Federal Nº9 and other judicial challenges remain.
- Exporters, ports and UNCTAD‑backed audit participation have urged a prompt award to reduce logistics costs, and ANPyN expects to combine technical and economic scores and resolve the concession in the coming weeks.