Bolivia announces a plan in order to upgrade the connections with the markets foreign countries through new outlets to the sea



During the last few years Bolivia has intensified the efforts in order to improve own connections with the markets foreign countries and therefore in order to guarantee an access to the sea, outlet that complains in vain to Chile from the end of the 1800's. Yesterday the government of Sucre has announced a new one slowly that he previews a potenziamento of the fluvial ports of the Far East of the nation to the aim to develop the connections with the Atlantic Ocean on the fluvial way Paraná-Paraguay to the aim to reach the harbour terminals of Argentina and that previews moreover, on the side of the Pacific, the potenziamento of the ports of Peru through investments that the executive has defined "important". "This - Álvaro García Linera has explained the Bolivian vice president - will imply a gradual migration of the goods with foreign country that currently journeys for Chile".

"Bolivia - García Linera has said - has assumed a decision that the regional economy in the next decade will change. A lot important is a decision: realizing the necessary investments, we will begin to gradually turn aside and to transfer towards the ports of Peru the cargos that enter in Bolivia coming from the Pacific Ocean".

García Linera has remembered that "the Bi-oceanic" freeway, that she crosses Bolivia with the scope to connect the national territory with the oceans Pacific and Atlantic and that will be inaugurated to the end of March in the city of Puerto Suárez, on the border oriental with Brazil, leads to the ports of Peru, in particular to the marine port of call of Ilo, where the government of La paz has in program to construct a harbour terminal. Currently, instead, Bolivia addresses great part of its commerce with foreign country realized for marine way through the ports of the north of Chile, above all Arica.

The Bolivian vice president has evidenced as the decision to orient the Bi-oceanic freeway towards Peru, let alone towards the port of Santos on the Atlantic, he will have a future impact on its foreign trade: "this - it has found - means that Bi-oceanic the coming one from Puerto Suarez and that is connected with the Brazilian freeways, it will pass through the Bolivian territory and that, instead reaching in the port of Arica, it must arrive to the port of Matarani or the corridor of Ilo". "This - it has specified - will not happen from the night to the morning, but gradually".

García Linera has specified moreover that the Bolivian government is engaged also in the development of the railway connections that allow the exploitation of the new accesses with the oceans: "we have decided - he has explained - than the transcontinental railroad that arrives by Santos in Brazil and reaches Puerto Suárez, from Puerto Suárez to Saint Cruz, from Saint Cruz to Cochabamba, Oruro, La paz, it must go in Peru, towards Matarani and Ilo. That for the transcontinental railroad is a huge investment by the Bolivian State, that it will cost approximately at least from two to three billions of dollars".

Sul forehead oriental, García Linera has announced investments in the fluvial port of Puerto Aguirre, that it connects Bolivia with idrovia Paraná-Paraguay, to the aim to afford that the commercial traffic generated in the part oriental of Bolivia can be direct towards the Argentine ports of Saint Fe and Mendoza. The Bolivian government previews also the potenziamento of the fluvial port of Puerto Busch.