{"id":691239,"date":"2026-06-08T07:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691239\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:59:09","slug":"breaking-news-jan-de-nul-wins-parana-dredging-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/691239\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Jan De Nul wins Paran\u00e1 dredging deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government in Buenos Aires awarded a 25-year concession for the modernization of Argentina\u2019s central waterway to\u00a0Jan De Nul\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/argentina.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>photo courtesy of Embajador Marc R. Stanley X<\/p>\n<p>Together with its local partner Servimagnus, the Belgian-Luxembourg family-owned company won the highly scrutinized $10 billion (\u20ac8.7 billion) tender from\u00a0Argentina\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the current contract is the navigation channel of the Paran\u00e1 River, Argentina\u2019s most important trade route. Around 80% of agricultural exports, primarily cereals and oilseeds from the Rosario region, are handled via this waterway.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Argentine Ministry of Economy, the planned deepening from the current 34 to up to 40 feet (equivalent to 12 meters) is intended to significantly improve logistics, reduce transport costs and boost the international competitiveness of Argentine agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Jan De Nul has extensive experience on the Paran\u00e1, having maintained the river for decades in partnership with Servimagnus. Since 2021, maintenance of the waterway has been carried out by the Argentine government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government in Buenos Aires awarded a 25-year concession for the modernization of Argentina\u2019s central waterway to\u00a0Jan De&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15665,4,450,451,243703,3,272660,452,453],"class_list":["post-691239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-argentina","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-jan-de-nul","tag-news","tag-parana","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}