At 5 p.m. on Tuesday, a new chapter opened for Puerto Berrío as six barges, assisted by the towboat Barranquilla, arrived with 3,850 tons of corn, sorghum and rolls of steel, the largest load in history ever to arrive in this location. This marks the beginning of Seacor Holdings’ barge operations on the Magdalena River, and the renaissance of commercial transport along the country’s main river, with products other than hydrocarbons.

In Colombia, of 180 millions tons of cargo moved each year, only 200 million are transported along the Magdalena. The hope is that by the end of the Santos administration, the river’s navigability is fully recovered and surpassed.

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