Overview
- By Resolution 61/2025, the ports and navigation agency published draft technical and legal pliegos and invited written observations for 10 calendar days, including the release of UNCTAD’s recommendations.
- The tender seeks a private concessionaire to modernize, dredge, maintain and signal the Vía Navegable Troncal from the Paraná’s Confluencia (km 1238) to deep waters in the Río de la Plata via key channels.
- Terms include a 25‑year concession extendable up to five years, a public‑works model at private commercial risk with no state guarantee, three‑envelope submissions priced in U.S. dollars, high financial thresholds, and a tariff band with a current floor of US$3.99 per net registered ton.
- ANPYN plans to finalize documents after the comment period and issue the international call around late December or early January, allow 60 days for bids, and, according to director Iñaki Arreseygor, target contract signatures in May 2026.
- UNCTAD affirmed that Jan de Nul, DEME, Boskalis and Van Oord have sufficient fleet capacity and noted others could enter via consortia, as the government seeks broader competition after annulling February’s failed one‑bid tender.