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Continuous Management of the Channel Design to Optimize Navigability in the Middle Paraná River Waterway: “Santa Fe – Confluence”. Argentina
This paper exposes how HIDROVIA S.A. (Inland Waterway Concession company) worked in the Middle Paraná River inland waterway “Santa Fe – Confluence” to maintain the navigation channel without dredging works by means of four steps: frequent bathymetric surveys, study of AIS vessels tracks, a special coordination of logistic works in the river with the technical team and buoy tenders crew and effective communication plans with involved stakeholders. This is a stretch of the well-known Paraguay – Paraná Inland Waterway in South America that reaches deep waters in the Río de la Plata. Physical characteristics and depths along this section of Paraná River determine what kind of vessels can sail according to its draught up to 10 ft. With 2 ft. For under keel clearance. From October 2010 to September 2021, dredging works and installation and maintenance of modern aids to navigation system were granted by the concession company. Given the intense morphological dynamics and thalweg migration of the river in this section, the contract stated that it was no suitable to keep a fixed channel design by means of permanent dredging works. It established that dredging works should only be done when and where it is not possible to maintain the channel design by readjustment of its profile with partial changes in the trace and direction of the waterway axis. The Aids to Navigation Department of HIDROVIA S:A. succeeded in doing that by implementing the continuous management of the channel design to optimize sustainable navigation in the Santa Fe – Confluence waterway.
Continuous Management of the Channel Design to Optimize Navigability in the Middle Paraná River Waterway: “Santa Fe – Confluence”. Argentina
This paper exposes how HIDROVIA S.A. (Inland Waterway Concession company) worked in the Middle Paraná River inland waterway “Santa Fe – Confluence” to maintain the navigation channel without dredging works by means of four steps: frequent bathymetric surveys, study of AIS vessels tracks, a special coordination of logistic works in the river with the technical team and buoy tenders crew and effective communication plans with involved stakeholders. This is a stretch of the well-known Paraguay – Paraná Inland Waterway in South America that reaches deep waters in the Río de la Plata. Physical characteristics and depths along this section of Paraná River determine what kind of vessels can sail according to its draught up to 10 ft. With 2 ft. For under keel clearance. From October 2010 to September 2021, dredging works and installation and maintenance of modern aids to navigation system were granted by the concession company. Given the intense morphological dynamics and thalweg migration of the river in this section, the contract stated that it was no suitable to keep a fixed channel design by means of permanent dredging works. It established that dredging works should only be done when and where it is not possible to maintain the channel design by readjustment of its profile with partial changes in the trace and direction of the waterway axis. The Aids to Navigation Department of HIDROVIA S:A. succeeded in doing that by implementing the continuous management of the channel design to optimize sustainable navigation in the Santa Fe – Confluence waterway.
Continuous Management of the Channel Design to Optimize Navigability in the Middle Paraná River Waterway: “Santa Fe – Confluence”. Argentina
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Li, Yun (editor) / Hu, Yaan (editor) / Rigo, Philippe (editor) / Lefler, Francisco Esteban (editor) / Zhao, Gensheng (editor) / Marpegan, M. L. (author) / Temer, L. A. (author)
Smart Rivers ; 2022 ; Nanjing
2023-02-26
12 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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