Overview

• Movement resumed at 7 a.m. Thursday with staged closures on RN7 from the RN40 junction toward the RP84 variant, with police and municipal escorts in place.
• Vialidad Nacional authorized the temporary apuntalamiento and engineers are conducting final checks on the reinforced bridge before approving the full crossing.
• The RN7 bridge over RP15 was not built for such loads, with local engineers noting typical capacity near 40 tonnes and only a fraction of the reactor’s weight without reinforcement.
• The 456‑ton, roughly 38‑meter HG‑D‑3501 reactor is bound for the HDS II unit in Luján de Cuyo, where it is intended to cut diesel sulfur content to about 10 ppm.
• The convoy uses a multi‑axle hydraulic platform with push‑pull tractors and moves at walking speed, requiring rolling and full closures coordinated by provincial police, gendarmerie and local municipalities.