Shipping to Argentina

The Buenos Aires port, located on the southern bank of the River Plate, is Argentina’s main seaport. It is also the country’s economic, industrial, and cultural hub, with a complex river network connecting it to Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil. Buenos Aires is not only South America’s cargo transportation hub, but also the world’s thirtieth largest economy, thanks to the port city’s strong services, advertising, finance, and real estate industries. This port plays a significant role in the rates of sea shipping to Argentina and vice versa.

Leather, grain, tobacco, agricultural goods, meat, dairy processing, automobile assembly, apparel, chemical factories, and other industries are all present in the city. The Pampa Humeda, a few kilometers from the harbor, is the country’s largest agricultural zone. As a result, the port handles a wide range of goods while also serving as a popular tourist destination. Buenos Aires handles over 2300 ships, 11,810,000 tonnes of cargo, 1,152,000 TEU, and 1,000,000 people each year.

The most important port facilities in Bahia Blanca Bay are Port Galvan, Port Rosales, and Ingeniero White Harbour, which span over 30 kilometers. The major port area of Bahia Blanca is accessed by a 96-kilometer-long, 185-meter-wide entry canal that can handle boats with a draught of 13.5 meters. Bahia Blanca Bay is designed to handle dry cargo and liquid bulk cargoes, with around 112,677,300 tonnes of cargo and over 1000 ships passing through each year.

The western entry canal from the Atlantic Ocean goes to the Punta Ancla and Ciguena buoys, which handle hydrocarbon shipments via its two SBMs, which are used by oil tankers to discharge crude oil to the La Plata refinery. After Buenos Aires port, this port is a great hub for sea shipping to Argentina and vice versa.

Santa Fe port, located 90 miles miles south of Rosario at the junction of the Salado and Parana rivers, is the world’s largest inland port, handling ocean trade between Argentina and the surrounding countries of Bolivia and Paraguay.

It is a multipurpose port that is vital to the economy of Santa Fe province since it exports agricultural products like wheat, soybeans, corn, peanuts, and beef, as well as minerals such as copper, gold, and car parts. It accepts sugar, petroleum products, and building materials in bulk. The port exports about 52,000 tonnes of grain on cargo ships and 20,000 tonnes on barges each year.

The Port of Rosario is an inland port and a significant goods-shipping hub in Argentina, located in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, on the western bank of the Paraná River, around 550 kilometers upstream from the Atlantic Ocean.

The port is the largest of four on the Paraná that are located in the Greater Rosario region.  It is part of the Bi-Oceanic Corridor, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba, the Cuyo region, and Valparaso, Chile; it serves the Santa Fe region directly, which produces a huge part of Argentine exports.