Large companies with foreign trade experience have an opportunity to leverage their infrastructure, contacts and expertise to supply small importers through free trade zones, turning their know-how into a new business channel. The model proposes that companies in sectors such as household appliances, hardware, electrical products, machinery and other consumer goods continue purchasing from their international suppliers, but instead of immediately nationalizing all the merchan

Neltume Ports, Montecon’s majority shareholder, submitted a private initiative to Uruguay’s Executive Branch to develop a new specialized container terminal at the Port of Montevideo, called Montevideo Container Terminal, with an estimated investment of US$900 million. The project would have capacity to handle up to 1.15 million TEU annually, with 940 meters of berthing line capable of accommodating two post-Panamax vessels simultaneously, a specialized berth for barge transs

Paraguay is seeking to deepen its logistics integration with Uruguay by developing a rail connection to the Port of Montevideo, providing an alternative to the current route through Puerto Zárate in Argentina and helping reduce the logistics cost disadvantage it faces as a landlocked country, estimated at 40% compared with countries with direct access to the sea. The project involves developing a Paraguayan railway network within three to four years between Naranjal and Ville