{"id":2753359,"date":"2026-01-26T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2753359\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:55:24","slug":"paraguay-argentina-extend-km-171-fuel-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2753359\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay, Argentina extend Km 171 fuel shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Paraguay&#8217;s national directorate of tax revenue DNIT and Argentina&#8217;s customs revenue and control agency Arca extended operations at the transshipment zone at the Km 171 mark in the Parana Guazu River for an additional 10 months.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, shared by DNIT head Oscar Orue on social media, comes after days of tension sparked by Argentina&#8217;s earlier decision to suspend operations at the site, citing a lack of formal port authorization.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina&#8217;s decision was criticized by Paraguayan authorities and industry groups last week, who warned of potential fuel supply disruptions and increased logistics costs.<\/p>\n<p>Km 171 is a critical hub for ship-to-barge transfers of oil products such as diesel and naphtha for landlocked Paraguay, which relies heavily on river transport for fuel imports.<\/p>\n<p>While the new agreement ensures continued operations in the short term, it remains unclear whether the 10-month extension will serve as a transitional period for negotiations toward a permanent solution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bylines\">By Flavia Alemi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraguay&#8217;s national directorate of tax revenue DNIT and Argentina&#8217;s customs revenue and control ag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2671308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785161],"tags":[133793,23370],"class_list":{"0":"post-2753359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-argentina","8":"tag-argentina","9":"tag-23370"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2671308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}