The Vice Governor of Santa Fe, Gisela Scaglia; the Minister of Productive Development, Gustavo Puccini; and the President of the Port Administrative Body, Leandro González, witnessed the loading of 22,000 tonnes of soya beans which left this Thursday from the Agro-grain Terminal of the Port of Santa Fe to Puerto San Lorenzo (ACA).
The convoy of 9 national flag barges carried grain from the cooperatives Agrícola Ganadera de Videla and Federal Agrícola Ganadera de San Justo. The operation represents a key step forward in the consolidation of river transport as an efficient and sustainable alternative, with logistical, economic and environmental benefits for the entire region.
In this regard, Scaglia stressed that the operation "means significant savings in logistics; but also on the roads, because there are 800 fewer trucks that will travel on the highway or National Route 11. Also, this generates port movement: we are loading soybeans produced in the interior of Santa Fe that will reach the ports of Rosario, and from there it will go to the world, carrying the Santa Fe brand, the products that we are making today.
"Santa Fe wants to become a logistics hub, with its ports fully operational and with airports that are also cargo airports, to give each production sector an alternative in logistics. And that they can know that the work we are doing has to do with giving alternatives to the production of Santa Fe to reach the world", concluded the vice-governor.
Infrastructure at the service of production
For his part, Puccini recalled that "the first mandate given to us by Governor Maximiliano Pullaro and the Vice-Governor was that the ports and airports should be at the disposal of production, having a strategic view so that this infrastructure is at the service of production in Santa Fe".
Regarding the Port of Santa Fe, the minister indicated that "it is first in the logistic hub of the centre of the Argentine Republic, because it is part of the Bioceanic Corridor and has a direct link with the Waterway. This is an example: two agricultural cooperatives taking grain to the ports of Rosario and from here it goes to the world; this lowers prices, improves competitiveness and reduces the environmental impact. The challenge is to continue, not only with cereals, that is why we are putting infrastructure, electricity, in the container yard".
Finally, the President of the Santa Fe Port Authority, Leandro Gonzalez, remarked that "from the Provincial Government we are working to put the Port of Santa Fe in the place we understand it belongs, which is a logistics hub for the whole of the interior of the country. We do not want the old discussions of competition with other ports, but of complementarity".
Logistic leadership
During the administration of Governor Maximiliano Pullaro, the Port of Santa Fe regained prominence as a regional logistic node, since an integral productive plan was implemented which articulates the countryside, industry and transport, with the aim of doubling the cargo moved through the integration of ports, airports and free trade zones.
This strategy allowed historic shipments, such as that of more than 20,000 tonnes of wheat, and significantly reduced logistics costs for local cooperatives.
In addition, the use of Santa Fe infrastructure by other provinces is promoted, consolidating a federal and competitive approach to the country's development.
