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The Mar Del Plata Port Regional Consortium received a single offer for the dredging of the access channel and inner harbour of the local port. The envelopes were opened in public at the local headquarters at noon on Friday.
The call for tenders to carry out a new maintenance dredging project at the port of Mar del Plata has received a single offer, submitted by the Spanish company Canlemar SL, recognised for having carried out similar works at this terminal during 2017 and 2018. The Mar del Plata Regional Port Consortium must now analyse the proposal to determine its viability.
Canlemar, a company that operated on the access channel of the port of Mar Del Plata in December 2018.
The opening of envelopes with the proposals took place this Friday at noon in a public event held in the Board of Directors of the Port Consortium. Authorities from the port entity and representatives of Canlemar SL, the only firm interested in the tender, participated in the ceremony. From this moment on, an Evaluation Committee will be in charge of reviewing the offer in detail and, based on its analysis, will decide whether the proposal meets the necessary conditions to award the work.
The call for tenders for this new dredging project, opened at the beginning of August, seeks to carry out work in the access channels, both interior and exterior, as well as in the turning area near the flammable post and the docking fronts in sections 8 and 9 of Pier 2. The official budget assigned for this tender amounts to USD 5,848,516.67, a figure that includes the Value Added Tax (VAT).
In the image, the Director of the CPRMDP Lic. Marcos Gutierrez, the CPN Sergio Izarraga, and the distinguished General Manager of the entity Gonzalo Chaet among others.
Canlemar SL has a solid track record in the port of Mar del Plata, where it previously carried out maintenance dredging tasks, ensuring the necessary conditions for the normal entry and exit of vessels. This type of work is essential to maintain the access channels with the required widths and depths, guaranteeing the efficient operation of the port terminal.
The president of the Consortium, Marcos Gutierrez, himself expressed the importance of “the great work of the entire technical team to carry out a tender of this nature. As regards operations, although it is a continuation of the previous dredging, an attempt is being made to reach a greater effective depth, in addition to taking advantage of the drift of Playa Varese to reuse the sediments classified as class D, which could even be part of a more ambitious plan, to give more space to Playa Grande, but this is a later step.”
Likewise, when asked about expectations, Gutierrez himself said that "the Consortium has the funds to carry out this work, but the desire is to do more important infrastructure works, in addition we have the endorsement and support of the Bank of the Province of Buenos Aires for loans of up to $2,000 million in a clear example of the openness that Governor Axel Kicillof had, which generates an extremely important boost for the development of the port in view of everything that lies ahead," making a clear reference to the magnitude and importance that the local port will take with the start-up of Lamb Weston, where more than 350 containers will be exported monthly.
The Regional Port Consortium will now assess whether Canlemar SLs proposal meets the established technical and financial requirements, in a process that will determine the award of a key project for the development and operation of the port of Mar del Plata. |
