Ahoy, cargo ships! (Out of the Box).Uruguay is deepening Montevideo's port. The local subsidiary of Norway's Boskalis will begin to dredge the port's access canal by the end of this year so that large ships can enter the harbor. Boskalis will scoop out Verb 1. scoop out - hollow out with a scoop; "scoop out a melon" core out, hollow out, hollow - remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" 2. 33.6 kilometers worth of mud in the access stretch on the Rio de la Plata La Plata (lä plä`tä), city (1991 pop. 640,344), capital of Buenos Aires prov., E central Argentina, 5 mi (8.1 km) inland from Ensenada, its port on the Río de la Plata. . The Uruguayan National Port Administration expects the US$4.1 million project to increase port traffic and attract huge cargo ships. Montevideo ranked No. 19 among Latin America's top 20 ports, moving 301,641 twenty-foot-equivalent units in 2001. A deepwater port may also mean cheaper imports. Uruguay had the highest cost of transportation in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , paying almost 14% of the total cost of its imports, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a study by the Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean. Port inaccessibility requires smaller ships, raising the cost of imports entering the country. |
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