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Montevideo, October 18th 2025 - 04:18 UTC

Tag: port of Montevideo

  • Saturday, August 16th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Uruguay interested in increased Paraguayan barge traffic

    There is a longstanding rivalry between Uruguayan and Argentine ports to handle Paraguayan cargo

    Uruguay is in talks with Asunción to improve the flow of Paraguayan barge fleet – the world's third-largest – through the port of Montevideo. In addition, extra berths have been requested at the port of Nueva Palmira.

  • Thursday, August 7th 2025 - 18:56 UTC

    Over 150 trucks stranded in Montevideo due to port delays: transporters report major financial losses

    The union also criticized the companies responsible for the cargo, claiming they “have not offered fair compensation”

    More than 150 cargo trucks have been immobilized for over ten days at the Port of Montevideo due to delays in the shipment of a rice export load, Montevideo Portal reported, citing the Intergremial de Transporte Profesional de Carga Terrestre del Uruguay (ITPC).

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Uruguay inaugurates fishing port terminal

    “The Argentine government understood, after 200 years of struggle,” that Montevideo's port offers better conditions than that of Buenos Aires

    Uruguayan authorities inaugurated a new fishing port in Capurro on Tuesday after a US$ 110 million investment, an “important milestone” that will house the activity in Montevideo, President Luis Lacalle Pou explained. The head of state also pointed out that “it has been many years since a public port was built here.”

  • Friday, February 9th 2024 - 11:05 UTC

    Uruguay anticipates a record cruise season with an 11% compared to 2022/23

    Four vessels, MSC Preziosa, Silver Nova, Zaphire Princess and Asamara Quest with some 7,000 visitors landed this week in Montevideo.

    The port of Montevideo is looking forward to a record season of cruise vessel visits with some 166 calls, out of a total of 241 which are expected to be completed by the end of April, which should represent an 11% compared to the previous situation 2022/2023.

  • Thursday, February 1st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Lacalle praises Milei for acquiescing to further dredging of River Plate

    The previous Argentine administrations of Presidents Mauricio Macri (2015-2019) and Alberto Fernández (2019-2023) stalled the project out of landlocking fears

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday praised his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei's willingness to cooperate in further dredging the River Plate at the Port of Montevideo from 13 to 14 meters. The previous administrations of Argentine Presidents Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández (2015-2023) considered that these works would leave the port of Buenos Aires in a disadvantageous position. Negotiations in this regard started in 2013 under Presidents Tabaré Vázquez and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK).

  • Thursday, January 25th 2024 - 10:19 UTC

    Uruguay and Argentina agree to move on with River Plate dredging

    “The deepening of regional integration is a necessary tool to achieve higher levels of development,” Mondino and Paganini said in a joint statement

    Foreign Ministers Omar Paganini and Diana Mondino agreed Wednesday during a one-on-one meeting in Asunción (Paraguay) that Uruguay and Argentina needed to move forward with the dredging of the 14-meter access channel to the port of Montevideo. Argentina's Mondino and Uruguay's Paganini met before the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) in the Paraguayan capital.

  • Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:42 UTC

    Uruguayan exports fall but 2023 still a good year

    Montevideo's port expects to handle even more trade in 2024, Curbelo explained

    Uruguay's sales abroad dropped 13% interannually, according to a study released this week in Montevideo. Uruguay XXI's Annual Uruguay Trade Report showed that “neither the external nor the internal context contributed to Uruguayan exports of goods.” Uruguay XXI also noted that despite the fall from 2022 figures, 2023 was “the second year with the highest value exports in the last decade.”

  • Tuesday, October 31st 2023 - 10:34 UTC

    Cruise season kicks off with four Antarctic ships in Montevideo

    The 2022-2023 season runs from November to April

    Four Antarctic ships have been reported to be docking in the Uruguayan port of Montevideo as the 2023/2024 cruise season is already underway.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 08:51 UTC

    Uruguay's cruise season in full swing; largest ever vessel MSC Seaview docks in Montevideo

    MSC Seaview with more than 2,000 cabins (some 5,400 passengers), the largest cruise to ever dock in Montevideo.

    The cruise season in Uruguay is in full swing and according to local authorities, some 241 calls are expected this summer. On one day three cruises docked in Montevideo, the MSC Preziosa with 4,300 passengers, the Azamara Pursuit with 379 passengers, and the Oosterdam with 1,200 passengers.

  • Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

    Brazil and Uruguay manage significant seizures of cocaine bound for Europe

    In Uruguay one of the operations involved a vessel heading for Spain and the second a truck with half a ton of cocaine. Apparently the drug was dropped from an aircraft

    Brazil and Uruguay have been quite active in their combat against the drug trade. In Brazil in the northeast of the country, the state of Pará, Federal Police seized 2,75 tons of pure cocaine bound for Europe, which has been considered one of the largest drug seizures in a port.

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