Timbúes Multipurpose Port

Objective

In relation to the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway (Hidrovía Paraná-Paraguay), the core objective of the Timbúes Multipurpose Port project is to modernise, diversify, and expand Argentina's international trade capacity. Located at kilometer 470 of this vital navigable corridor, the terminal aims to transform a traditionally agro-centric sector into a highly flexible, multi-commodity logistics hubThe Multipurpose Vision: Seeing that existing local terminals focused exclusively on grain and sub-products, Terminales y Servicios S.A. proposed a specialized multi-commodity alternative to handle container, liquid, and strategic mineral transport

Description

The Timbúes Multipurpose Port is a massive greenfield infrastructure project led by Terminales y Servicios S.A. in Santa Fe, Argentina. Spanning a 186-hectare site along the Coronda/Paraná River, it is designed to handle Panamax and Post-Panamax vessels with a throughput capacity exceeding 5 million tons annually

History

The Multipurpose Vision: Seeing that existing local terminals focused exclusively on grain and sub-products, Terminales y Servicios S.A. proposed a specialized multi-commodity alternative to handle container, liquid, and strategic mineral transport. The infrastructure project was approved as Argentina’s 9th official project under the Large Investment Incentive Regime (RIGI). While TyS provides the direct capital injection, RIGI dramatically lowers the project's financial burden over its 30-year lifecycle through:

Finance