Maersk becomes the only carrier in Mar del Plata Port

Maersk is now the only container carrier to operate in the Port of Mar del Plata after MSC decided to discontinue its services in the port due to the lack of a crane and other investments by the port.

For industry experts, MSC’s disruption of service will lead to increased logistics costs at the port, as well as increased risk of goods theft and breakdown of trucks, among other factors. In summary: Mar del Plata will not be a multimodal port.

As service capacity declines, many companies who are exporting their products through the port should consider returning to land freight and operating at the Port of Buenos Aires.

To accountant Emilio Bustamante, one of the owners of Container Terminal Two (TC2), “MSC is no longer coming because the port did not make the necessary investments to operate the ships they were operating. I have been warning for some time that this would end up happening because we need to make investments. The public port declares that it has no money, but neither does it encourage private parties to do so, although we are willing to do so,” he said.

He added: “The port of Mar del Plata has been a fishing port for many years, but that does not mean that it can also export goods, like the rest of the world. Here it always took nothing but fishing and that is a mistake that we are trying to slowly change. ”

Source: Nuestro Mar

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