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Government Adds 27 National Routes to Road‑Concession Program

The decree seeks private investment for road rehabilitation by giving the Economy Ministry a 12‑month mandate to define segments, prepare contracts, launch tenders.

Overview

  • The executive published Decree 1358/2026, which formally places 27 national route numbers into the Red Federal de Concesiones and opens them to concession under a toll regime.
  • The decree, which was published Friday, requires the Ministry of Economy through the Secretaría de Transporte to use a 12‑month window to define specific tramos, draft pliegos and call national and international tenders.
  • The Dirección Nacional de Vialidad will provide the technical reports that delimit segments and will act as the authority in charge of supervising and enforcing concession contracts after awards.
  • The annex lists only route numbers and provinces and does not include kilometre markers or endpoints, leaving tariffs, exact segment boundaries and required works to be decided later and raising questions about revenue viability for low‑traffic sections.
  • The move continues a process that already conceded more than 9,000 km in prior stages and rests on laws expanding executive concession powers, while a July technical report from Vialidad that contains the detailed maps has not been published publicly.