Overview

• The 456-ton reactor, measuring 40 m long, 8 m high and 7.5 m wide, is designed to reduce sulfur levels and boost diesel output at YPF’s Luján de Cuyo refinery.
• The convoy has completed a reinforced 700 m dirt bypass across the Mendoza riverbed to skirt a weight-restricted bridge and is now staged at the intersection of Ruta 40 and Ruta 7.
• Progress depends on Vialidad Nacional’s approval to use Ruta 7, with delays in securing the permit likely to stretch the operation beyond its planned weekend finish.
• Provincial police, the National Gendarmerie and local municipalities are coordinating rolling road closures of 20 to 60 minutes per segment to facilitate the convoy’s movement.
• Logistics teams warn that technical contingencies and outstanding permissions could extend the journey into early next week, surpassing the initial three-to-five-day schedule.