Argentina: The government advances with the privatization of more than 9 thousand kilometers of highways and routes throughout the country

“The tolls rose while the routes fell apart,” said the presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, by communicating the decision at a press conference.

“From this model, the development of infrastructure works will be promoted through the private sector participationthat he will be in charge of executing the necessary works and efforts to his own account and risk, in exchange for the right to demand the collection of a toll to the users, “said the spokesman.

In that sense, he said, the Public Business Transformation Agency – dependent on the Ministry of Economy – will be the area responsible for adopting the necessary measures and specifying a series of actions: the extinction by mutual agreement of the current concession contracts of 10 sections Assigned to road corridors, the execution of the selection procedure for the conclusion of the public works concession contracts on the corridors, the dissolution and subsequent dissolution of road corridors, once the concession contracts have been awarded and perfected selected.

“In this way, the private sector will find better mechanisms for the subcontracting of the works, without the restrictions that the law of public works means,” said Adorni.

When exposing the reasons for the decision, the spokesman listed that 45% of the entire trace that operated road corridors “was in a critical state”, the work contracts were paralyzed and the tariff delay “was 45% in Relationship to the technical rate “.

He also explained that, in 2023, the company registered a negative economic result, with a debt with suppliers of 142 billion pesos and losses accumulated for $ 268 billion. “With all these lean results, all Argentines contributed $ 301 billion pesos,” he concluded.

Section I. UNE Jujuy with the border between Santiago del Estero with Santa Fe through of national routes 9 and 34. They are in total 797 km divided into four segments and four toll stations (Buey head, Fernández, La Florida, Molle Yaco):

Section II. Located in the province of Buenos Aires, they are 90 km that go between Parchment and Junin. It is a single toll station, in Junín.

Section III. Goes from the border with Brazil From missions to Saénz Peña, in Chaco, In three segments. There are 933 km on routes 12 and 16. It has six toll stations (Colonia Victoria, Gral. Belgrano, Ituzaingó, Makallé, Riachuelo, Santa Ana)

Section IV. They are 687 km between Pilar (Buenos Aires) and Villa Mercedes (San Luis) passing through Córdoba and Santa Fe along Route 8. It has four toll booths (Larena, Sampacho, Solís and Venado Tuerto)

Section V. This is 664 km that go from the border between Santiago and Santa Fe to San Lorenzo (Santa Fe) and from Santo Tomé (Santa Fe) to Río First (Córdoba). There are four tolls (Ceres, Devoto, Franck and San Vicente).

Section VI. Extends by 720 km that unite Campana (Buenos Aires) with San Lorenzo (Santa Fe) and Rosario (Santa Fe) with Pilar (Córdoba). It includes the tolls of Carcañá, Gral. Lagos, James Craik and Zárate.

Section VII. There are 671 km inside the province of Buenos Aires. They go from Cañuelas to Saladillofrom Cañuelas to Route 226 and Olavarría to Mar del Plata. There are five toll stations, in Cañuelas, El Dorado, Hinojo, Uribelarrea and Vasconia.

Section VIII. This is 722 km from West access In Buenos Aires to the border with San Luis, and from Mendoza Even the other border with San Luis on Route 7 although it does not include San Luis, passes through Córdoba and the south of Santa Fe. Tolls in La Paz, Junín, Vicuña-Macker and Villa Espil.

Section IX. They are 50 km in the Buenos Aires Conurbano which include the Ezeiza-Cañuelas highways, Jorge Newbery and La Riccheri to General Paz. This section covers seven tolls in total: Boulogne Sur Mer, Donovan, Ezeiza, Central Market, Monte Grande, Riccheri and Tristán Suárez.

Tramo X. are 546 km From Luján (Buenos Aires) to Santa Rosa (La Pampa) on Route 5. It has tolls on July 9, Olivera and Trenque Lauquen.

XI section. Actually, there are several new sections not yet concessioned. In total, Suma 2.650 km With routes on routes that cross ten provinces: Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Mendoza, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, Misiones, Chaco, Salta and Jujuy. The national routes in question are 3, 7, 11, 18, 33, 35, 66, 1v66, 105, 188, 205 and 266.