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The National Association of Customs Agents (Anagena) urged to keep contingency plans active after the reopening of Los Libertadores Pass, after the main land corridor between Chile and Argentina remained closed for 34 days due to adverse weather conditions. The interruption of transit generated a severe accumulation of trucks and cargo.
"We value the reopening of Los Libertadores and the work carried out by the authorities to make this first step possible, but now a second stage begins, which also requires coordination and planning," said Patricio Zulueta, president of Anagena.
"It is not enough to open the corridor; we must ensure that the accumulated cargo can advance in an orderly manner and that the different links of the logistics chain have the capacity to respond to this increase in flow," he added.
The guild called for the contingency plans of the different public bodies to remain in force and coordinated while the effects derived from the closure persist, especially during the decongestion process.
"This implies maintaining permanent coordination between services linked to foreign trade, transport, and logistics, along with providing timely information to operators so that they can anticipate their decisions and reduce new delays," the group remarked.
In this regard, Anagena highlighted the importance of measures such as the plan implemented by the Seremi de Salud of the Valparaíso Region to reinforce attention and expedite the processing of food cargo in Los Andes.
"As a guild, we will be available to guide, from our scope of action, customs agents and the different actors involved regarding the operational conditions that arise. Our role is to contribute to timely information dissemination and to identify and channel any difficulties that may arise at this stage," Zulueta emphasized.
In this context, the guild remarked that "the prolonged closure of Los Libertadores also leaves a lesson for Chilean foreign trade: the need to have previously defined contingency protocols for strategic corridors and to strengthen public-private coordination in the face of prolonged interruptions."
"Los Libertadores is a critical corridor for land trade between Chile and Argentina. During 2025, more than 427,000 trucks and over 6.5 million tons of merchandise transited through this pass, which allows us to gauge the impact that a prolonged interruption can generate on the logistics chain," he added.
"This experience should serve to anticipate. Climatic contingencies can happen again, and for strategic corridors like Los Libertadores, we need response mechanisms that allow us to act with greater speed, information, and coordination. From Anagena, we are available to contribute from the experience of our associates and help build these tools," concluded the president of Anagena.
In detail, the reopening of the Cristo Redentor System will operate on Tuesday, August 18, Wednesday, August 19, and Thursday, August 20, with movement from Argentina to Chile only for land cargo transport from 08:00 to 20:00 (Chilean time) or 09:00 to 21:00 (Argentine time). The pass will be enabled in one direction from Argentina to Chile up to Guardia Vieja.
Meanwhile, on Friday, August 21, and Saturday, August 22, traffic from Chile to Argentina only for trucks will be from 08:00 to 20:00 (Chilean time) or 09:00 to 21:00 (Argentine time) in one direction from Chile to Argentina up to Uspallata.
