Argentina: Blueberry Producers presented the demands for the International Airport of Concordia Cargoes before the IDB
"Not only exports would benefit, but also the entire productive chain of commercialization of various activities", They considered.
Argentine representatives of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) visited Concordia for three days to soak up the reality of the region and discuss the financing of strategic projects for this area. Among them, is the International Airport of Cargo and Passengers, the Vecinal Bridge and the Central Coastal Defense, as well as the project of the Uruguayan Port of Salto for barges.
To discuss the feasibility and necessity of the airport, the authorities of the Association of Blueberry Producers of the Mesopotamia Argentina (Apama) were summoned, who presented the IDB officials with statistical data on the sector in terms of production and export. Together with APAMA, the Municipal Production Council also convened representatives of the municipal government; of the UTN; of the Association of Major Works Masters; INTA; the Professional Council of Economic Sciences; the Trade and Services Center; and ASODECO.
On the arandanera activity, Alejandro Pannunzio and Omar Chiarello, president and vice-president of APAMA, explained that with the arrival of the airport to the city, a stage would be enabled not only to optimize logistics costs - it would save freight to Ezeiza, among others savings-, but it would also generate an acceleration in the migration towards better quality of the fruit, because the airport would allow to produce varieties that require specific transfer times, and this necessarily would demand greater investments of the producers and greater demand of manpower.
For their part, IDB officials stressed the importance of reaching an articulation and a public and private agreement on the future administration of the airport. They recalled that although financing is important, the local government should pay attention to feasibility studies for the maintenance of the work, which usually involves a cost that goes from 3 to 5% monthly of the total value of the infrastructure work.
In that sense, all the actors agreed that this instance will be resolved if access to international credit is achieved to specify the rating. The construction of the track is the investment that demands the most money.
Finally, the blueberries gave details about the importance of having the airport to match the conditions of the Mesopotamian area with those of the Tucuman area, which since it has the cargo airport has doubled exports. In this sense, from the Trade Center they emphasized that the Concordia airport, due to its status as a binational company, would also benefit the region by attracting operations from all of southern Brazil, as well as from the entire Uruguayan coast.
Source: APFDigital
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