The Government will begin to export to Chile and the Pacific Ocean through the San Francisco Pass, as a maneuver to give commercial impulse to the border corridor, regardless of the negotiations and advances that the Biocenic Corridor may have. “The movement will stimulate the project,” said Governor Ral Jalil. The first thing to be exported is must, as part of a public-private project, in which the Government has already invested to start.
According to the president, four containers of sulphited must will be sent to the Pacific, in about 200 trucks that will travel through the San Francisco Pass.
This must is produced in the Saleme Winery, owned by the businessman Juan Longo and recently reactivated with a subsidy from the former Ministry of Production (in 2019), and is accumulated in the Must Concentrator Plant that the Municipality of Tinogasta installed on the land where it will begin to be erected an Industrial Park and that were also ceded by the provincial State in mid-December.
The mostera was acquired by the state company AICAT, the “executing arm” of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, and was loaned to another state company: Tinogasta Productiva Sociedad del Estado (TIPSE). The intention is that all the grapes produced by the Tinogaste producers are processed.
For Jalil, starting to export this sulphited must will be fundamental in the future of the commercial development project together with the northern and central provinces of Argentina. “We have to start using El Paso to export as soon as possible. The commercial movement to stimulate the Biocenic Corridor project is a matter of starting as soon as possible with trucks,” analyzed the president, within the framework of the megaproject that includes the railway connection with Chile through the Paso San Francisco.
Jalil made these considerations after having participated this week in the state visit of President Alberto Fernández to Chile, where he signed various agreements with his trans-Andean counterpart, Sebastin Piera.
On that occasion, Jalil and the governors Sergio Uac (San Juan), Ricardo Quintela (La Rioja) and Gustavo Senz (Salta) held a meeting at the Palacio de La Moneda with the Chilean Interior Minister, Rodrigo Delgado Mocarquer, by the corridors biocenicos, which were also part of the bilateral agenda between the presidents.
In fact, in the official joint declaration that Fernndez and Piera signed, they highlighted the importance of the Biocenic Corridors.
In the first instance, that of the North Campo Grande-Puerto Murtinho (Mato Grosso do Sul-Brazil), which connects Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina to the ports of Antofagasta-Mejillones and Iquique in the North of Chile through the Pasos de Sico ( Salta) and Jama (Jujuy).
In the second instance, the NOA-Centro Biocenico Corridor, which connects the ports of Buenos Aires and Rosario with the provinces of Santa Fe, Entre Ros, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Tucumn, La Rioja, Catamarca and Salta with Chilean water ports. deep in the Atacama region through the Pircas Negras (La Rioja) and San Francisco (Catamarca) passes.
They also highlighted the Central Biocenic Corridor, which connects Porto Alegre, in Brazil, with Coquimbo, in Chile, through Uruguaiana, Corrientes, Entre Ros, Santa Fe, Cordoba, La Rioja and San Juan through the Agua Negra Tunnel; and the Biocenico Ferro-vial Sur Corridor, which connects the Ports of Baha Blanca and Patagonia Argentina with those of Concepcin and Valdivia in Chile, covering the South of the Province of Buenos Aires, Neuqun, Ro Negro and Chubut and the Regions of the Bo-Bo, de la Araucana and de los Ros, through the Pino Hachado border crossing.
This is mentioned in points 12 and 12 bis of the joint declaration, in which they expressed their “interest in fostering physical integration through biocenic corridors, and highlighted the need to carry out the necessary infrastructure and physical connectivity works, and with this purpose, they resolved to establish a mechanism for dialogue and information exchange between the foreign ministries and the competent offices in their respective governments. “
Catamarca raised the importance of the Biocenic Corridor on numerous occasions to commercialize products through the Pacific Ocean, and Governor Jalil also raised it personally to the owners of one of the main port operating companies in the world, DP World, in the tour he held. by Dubai and the Arab Emirates at the beginning of its administration.
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