Montevideo access channel to be dredged to 14m in 2021

The Minister of Transport and Public Works of Uruguay, Luis Alberto Heber; the president of ANP (the country’s national port administration), Juan Curbelo, and the president of CND, the national development corporation, José Luis Puig – signed an agreement with the objective of dredging the access channel to the port of Montevideo.

According to Heber, a large part of the access channel to the Port of Montevideo is favored by water currents and, therefore, requires extremely low maintenance costs.

Curbelo stressed that the agreement is very important, as it is a first step towards the development of a project that will be important for the entire port operation in the region.

The ANP will work together with the CND to carry out the technical design of the project and the call for tenders for the construction, deepening, and maintenance of the access channel to the port of Montevideo, which will take place in the first half of 2021.

The channel measures 65 kilometers. The works will allow the safer entry of ships. The cost of the work exceeds 200 million dollars and it is estimated that its completion will be defined in a period between 12 and 18 months, with maintenance for 10 years.

Part of the dredging will be carried out by ANP’s own teams and the rest by national and international companies.

Consult the following graph for monthly container handling at the Port of Montevideo since 2017:

Report source: Portal Portuário

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