The state shipyard Tandanor has regained a strategic capacity for the Argentine naval industry after advancing with the first comprehensive intervention of the Syncrolift since its commissioning in 1979, a project driven by the current management that increased its operational availability from 10% to 95%.
The infrastructure, considered one of the main productive assets of the company, also managed to expand the maximum draft of the vessels it can receive from 4.10 to 5.80 meters, while once the work is completed, it is projected to achieve a 99.5% availability and operate with vessels of up to 6.20 meters draft.
The Syncrolift is 184 meters long and 32.90 meters wide, making it the largest system of its kind in the region and the second largest in the entire American continent. Its function allows it to lift vessels of up to 15,000 tons and subsequently move them via rails to four independent work slips.
For decades, the accumulation of sediments beneath the platform progressively reduced the available depth and severely limited its use. The situation had brought operational availability down to just 10%, equivalent to about 36 days per year for deep-draft vessels under normal conditions.
