The national government and the province of Buenos Aires incorporate new technologies into the operation of the port of Mar del Plata

Statement from the Secretary of Commerce

This is an automated translation of the press release issued in Spanish

The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof; together with the Secretary of Commerce of the Nation, Matías Tombolini; and the Minister of Production, Science and Technological Innovation of the province, Augusto Costa; announced today, in Mar del Plata, the digitization and modernization of the port of the Buenos Aires city. The deputy governor of Buenos Aires, Verónica Magario, and the executive director of ANSES, Fernanda Raverta, were present at the event.

Within the framework of the Digitalization and Technological Modernization Program, the officials led the act of incorporating new instruments to control the cargo and billing of services in the port, and a technological system integrated with the fixed scales to improve delivery times. surgery and rotation. Likewise, the provision of a fiber optic network, video surveillance systems, notebooks and tablets was agreed to modernize the daily management of port operations and make cargo monitoring more effective.

The purpose of the program is to avoid abuses and optimize procedures for importing, exporting and transiting products, taking care of the dollars that are needed for Argentine work. This is a joint measure between the Undersecretariat for Port Affairs, of the provincial Ministry of Production, Science and Technological Innovation and the Single Window for Foreign Trade (VUCE) of the Ministry of Economy of the Nation, which is financed by the Inter-American Development Bank. Development (IDB) for a total of 560 million pesos.

The initiative has already been implemented in other ports in the province and aims to make logistics more efficient, expedite procedures, reduce costs and waiting times, optimize the functions of operations control agencies and improve security and monitoring of the charges.

The Single Window for Foreign Trade (VUCE) enables a mechanism to facilitate international trade, whose purpose is to digitally optimize and unify in a single access point the information and documentation necessary to carry out import, export and product transit procedures.

Also participating in the announcement were the Chief of Advisors to the Governor, Carlos Bianco; the Minister of Government, Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez; the Provincial Undersecretary for Port Affairs, Juan Cruz Lucero; the director of the VUCE, Rodrigo Puértolas; the provincial senator for the Frente de Todos, Pablo Obeid; the provincial deputies, Natalia Sánchez Jauregui and Germán Di Cesare; the director of the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP), Oscar Padin; the General Secretary of the National Chamber of Deputies, Juan Manuel Cheppi; the Undersecretary of Cultural Policies of the Province of Buenos Aires, Victoria Onetto; and the presidents of management consortiums of the Province.