The Greater Rosario is an important spot for regional development within the
Argentine Republic. Counting with over a millon inhabitants, it is an
industrial, commercial and business center placed in the heart of the
agricultural and cattling productive region of the country.
It also has a modern structure of services wich supports the dealings carried
out of its port: banks, insurance, customs, communications, transport,
marketing, supplies, construction, repair, technical, legal, shipping companies,
stowing, hotels, etc.
The Port of Greater Rosario covers from Puerto Gral San Martín up to General
Lagos. In 1992 it achieved a record annual movement of over 17,000,000 tons.
Along the bank are situated over a dozen terminal points devoted specially to
the export of agricultural grain and specifically the Port of Rosario itself
(general loading and grains) under the responsability of the Rosario Port
Authority and which now goes from the Southern limit of Parque España up to the
Northern Branch of the Saladillo Stream, covering a little over 140 hectares.
The record point in the load movement of Rosario Port was in 1985, with a total
of almost 9,500,000 tons of goods, mostly grain, subproducts and vegetable oils
for export.
WAYS OF ACCESS.
The Port of Rosario is Placed at 32º 56’ 42’’ southern latitude and 60º 38’ 26’’
western longitude.
The road and rail networks that converge towards the city, extend the influence
of the port area towards the centre, the region of Cuyo and the North of the
Argentine Republic, linking important urban and industrial centers like Santa
Fe, Córdoba, Mendoza and Tucuman. and beyond the national boundaries, to
neighbouring countries like Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay.
Likewise, the highway Avenida de Circunvalación- Acceso Sur to Port, allows safe
and jam-free road communication with the international airport of the city and
direct highway-like access to the port without going through the city.
The port has been strategically placed on the right bank of the Paraná river on
Km 420, near the river-sea step connecting overseas navigation to river
navigation. It is the northernmost point within the Plata affluents, which
allows the service to oceanic vessels of a significant draft.
The Paraná river, which is the spine of the
Hydroway System-Río de la Plata
offers direct access for a wide range of vessels.
From downstream, it allows the service of overseas vessels up to Panamax kind.
From upstream, it provides access to the most important river route in South
America, which can be navigated by low draft vessels or pushing convoys.
In the short term, privatization of buoy-marking and of the openning and
maintenance dredging work will allow us to count on a sure draft of 32 feet all
along the navigable route between Rosario and the ocean.
It is possible to keep the above described depth in Puerto Rosario with a
minimun of operations, due to the particular natural hydrographic conditions
that the main channel in the region has, running as it does, practically next to
the dock front.
Finally, another advantage of Rosario Port, is the easy movement of the vessels
with no need for tugs.
INFRASTRUCTURE.
Rosario Port itself may be divided, for a proper description,
into two sections:
- The Northern Area, which covers the area from the southern limit of the Parque
España up to Av. Pellegrini.
- The Southern Area, which compromises from Av. Pellegrini towards the South up
to the Saladillo Stream.
The Northern Area is situated in full urban development, it does not have a
modern operational or service infrastructure (handling facilities, rail grills,
motor power, lighting, etc) and part of its wooden docks have stability
problems. It is a long stretch, but too narrow for settling or large operations.
It also has the drawback of being inaccesible, as it is disconnected from the
Southern Area because of the Parque Nacional a la Bandera and because of the
river sailing clubs.
The Southern Area, on the other hand, has a significant operational and service
infrastructure, which is largely the result of investment done during the 70’s
and first half of the 80’s, among others: rail grills, masonry and-or concrete
docks, concrete macadam, half tension supply and transforming cabins for motor
power, lighting through towers, gentry cranes, drinking water network to supply
vessels, general storeroom and silo-sheds, storing capacity of 78,000 cubic
metres in tanks, grain lifter among which the complex of Units VI and VII stand
out for their storing capacity of 200,000 tons and a nominal embarking capacity
of over 6,000 tons per hour in two mooring spots, including in their area a
truck parking lot, their own rail grill and dock over an inner harbour for
barges.
This Southern Area is over 2300 m long in the dock front and makes it more
interesting is its widening as it advances towards the South. It has excellent
road and rail ways of access: Av. de Circunvalación- Acceso Sur and Central
Argentino, Ferroexpreso Pampeano and Buenos Aires to the Pacific railways in
wide gauge and Belgrano Railway in narrow gauge.
Towards the west and towards the South, it is extended, besides, in a Port
Reserved area, the surface of which makes the operational expansion of the port
possible in the middle term.-
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