Ferrosur Roca
Camargo Correa | |
| Website | ferrosur.com.ar |
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Ferrosur Roca S.A. (FR) is a
broad gauge that belongs to General Roca Railway
.
Some of the products transported by Ferrosur Roca include salt, clincker, plaster, cement, lime, cereals, fertilizers, coking coal, iron scrap, petroleum and fuel oil, among other items. The company transported a total of 5,258,301 tonnes of freight in 2014.[1]
The company, property of the
Camargo Correa group,[2]
is 80% owned by the Cofesur group, 16% State-owned and 4% owned by employees of the company through Personal de Ferrosur S.A.
History
After all the Argentine rail network was privatised during Carlos Menem's administration in early 1990s, concession was granted to Ferrosur Roca to operate freight services in the center and south of Argentina running on Ferrocarril Roca tracks.
The company began its activities on March 12, 1993 over a 3,342 km (2,077 mi) rail network extending south and southwest from
Rio Negro and Neuquén and serving the ports of Bahía Blanca, Quequén and San Antonio Oeste. The branch from Bahía Blanca to Zapala
serves the commercially important Rio Negro fruit-growing region.
Ferrosur's fleet include 2,550
América Latina Logística
.
See also
- Camargo Correa
- General Roca Railway
- Rail transport in Argentina
References
- ^ a b 7,1% menos de carga transportada por ferrocarril en el 2014, Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario, 13 February 2015.
- ^ "Camargo Correa invertirá otros u$s 50M en Loma Negra y Ferrosur Roca", Piano Bursátil
- ^ "Parque Vagones / Tolva Minera" Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine on Ferrosur website
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ferrosur Roca.
- Official website (archived)
