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Pehuenche Border Committee Revived With Calls for Upgrades as Maule Details Modernization Plan

Restricted hours and minimal truck flow keep the crossing far from a viable trade route.

En el comité binacional, destacó que mejorar la conectividad con Chile favorece el turismo, el comercio y la integración regional.
En Talca, el ministro Vargas Arizu con Alberto Marengo, subsecretario de Industria, Comercio y Logística de Mendoza.

Overview

  • Mendoza governor Alfredo Cornejo led Argentina’s delegation in Talca and urged accelerated works plus concrete national commitments to make Pehuenche competitive.
  • Cornejo pressed to resume a unified customs and migration complex and proposed evaluating its location on Chilean soil to speed procedures.
  • Operations remain limited to 9:00–19:00 with about five trucks daily, compared with roughly 1,000 that use Cristo Redentor in peak periods.
  • Maule governor Pedro Pablo Álvarez-Salamanca announced a modernization plan that includes a customs-control scale and construction of a new aduana.
  • The reactivated committee set up working commissions across facilitation, infrastructure, transport, commerce and tourism, while Argentina’s Las Loicas site still needs legal regularization, winter shelter and expanded cargo space despite a new scanner and planning for a cargo transfer center.