Faced with new regional competition, the Port of Buenos Aires has to develop as a logistics hub and offer value-added services to help attract new transhipment cargo flows, accordimg to Ricardo del Valle, a spokesman for the port authority (AGP).
As a first step, US$5 mill is being invested in rehabilitating 16 hectares of land in the Darsena Sur area, to provide a base for value-added services. AGP is also pushing ahead with "Coloba" (Comunidad Logistica de Buenos Aires), aimed at developing a new informatics systems to replace much of the millions of paper documents issued and received by the AGP every year....
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Approx 230 words from WorldCargo News, October 2001,
page 8.
