An app seeks to avoid the bottlenecks of trucks in Cargill harbor

ROSARIO.- 70% of the trucks entering the ports of Gran Rosario to unload the harvest do so between 18 and 2 o'clock in the morning. Producers often harvest during the day and in the afternoon, they send the truck to the terminal.

The daily average for this harvest season is between 8,000 and 10,000 vehicles a day. Thus, despite the fact that the official STOP system, which sets entry quotas, has managed to order traffic to terminals, to create bottlenecks and often, the expectations of carriers exceed all forecasts and generate tension.

At the Punta Alvear terminal of the Cargill company, they started using this year as an application an application that the trucks have to download – it's called Circular – and with this application they give the carrier an hour to get to the port.

The STOP system gives them the quota of the day they have to go to the port to leave the cargo sold, and the circular based on this change refines the band and grants a specific time.

"With this application, we are looking for that, in addition to the quota granted by the STOP system for a given day, the driver of the truck has a defined schedule to enter the terminal, if it arrives on time and At that point, the download is more agile and can only take four hours, the carrier is quick to download, and the download is simplified, "said Alfredo Solis, Logistics Manager at Cargill.

The head of the company explained that the purpose of the circular, which is being pilot tested, is that there is no point of arrival of trucks during a certain time slot, but to be constant throughout the day to speed up and avoid delays in deliveries. the discharge of grains.

Solís pointed out that the application had begun to be tested on a small universe of 200 truck drivers, but that after launching a campaign to advertise the application on the beach of lorries , 800 carriers joined the company in a few days.

The download of the application is voluntary and free. "It is very simple to use and operate the system provided by the STOP system, from which Circular provides a definite timetable and if the driver respects it, he has the advantage of being able to return home more quickly. because the download time is about five hours, "said Mr Solis, adding that the purpose of this technology is" to improve the arrival of trucks in ports and airports. to speed up the download in the terminal ".