CARP Completes Phase 1 of Plata River Dredging

The Rio de la Plata Port Administrator Commission (CARP), a bi-national commission between Argentina and Uruguay, said in late February it completed phase one of a deepening and maintenance dredging project for the La Plata River channels between kilometers 37, near Barra del Farallón, and kilometer zero. CARP said it awarded the five-year dredging works in August 2018 to a consortium made up of Boskalis International B.V, and DEME Group’s Dredging International. The project will dredge to depths of 34 and 38 feet in hard bottom areas. As a result of the completed deepening dredging, CARP declared the Barra del Farallón and the kilometer zero areas to now have “regulator navigability.”