As Uruguay\u2019s Montevideo is the only port in the Mercosur lacking such an agreement, the move has been interpreted as a means of boosting cargo handled by the Argentinean ports of La Plata and Buenos Aires at the expense of Montevideo.<\/p>\n
Katoen Natie, which operates Montevideo’s Cuenca de la Plata container terminal (TCP) has already reported significant losses of Patagonian box traffic since the measure was imposed on November 7 and expects the situation to get worse.<\/p>\n
This, it claims, will undermine the substantial investment it has already made in TCP, whose operating costs are significantly more competitive than those in ports in Argentina.<\/p>\n
In the short term, the Brazilian port of Rio Grande do Sul, which began to seriously compete with Montevideo for container traffic in 2000, is expected to be a direct beneficiary of the embargo. However, if the embargo is not lifted, the Uruguayan government is threatening to take the case to the Mercosur itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Uruguay has officially protested to the Mercosurs Transport working group regarding the unilateral decision taken by Argentina to impose on embargo on its goods being transhipped at any ports in the region with whom it does not have an existing load standby agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8969,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions\/8969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}