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MTOP advances in the digitalization of transportation with the new Electronic Cargo Guide
12/04/2025
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The national director of Transportation of the MTOP, Felipe Martín, participated in Expo Carga 2025, where he presented the advances of the Electronic Guide for Freight Transportation, a key tool in the digitalization of Uruguayan transportation.
This new system, developed by the National Directorate of Transport, allows cargo guides to be managed completely online through a web platform and a mobile app, with secure authentication through digital identity. “The cargo guide is precisely intended to be a tool that allows knowing the movement of that cargo associated with its GPS, to know what has to do with its traceability,” explained Martín.
The Transportation chief also highlighted the MTOP's investment in road and technological modernization, aimed at improving safety, inspection and professionalization of the sector. He noted that the Ministry is advancing in the incorporation of new weighing and control technology: currently there are 32 fixed scales equipped with state-of-the-art systems and, in the next 24 months, intelligent gantries capable of identifying vehicles and verifying in seconds whether they circulate in regulatory conditions will be added. The first of these gantries, which operates under the “free flow” system, has already been installed at the intersection of routes 12 and 55.
10 vans with mobile weighing systems will also be incorporated, which will be operational from January 2026, and will be strategically distributed “according to the needs of the cargo harvest, tourist movement and passengers,” he reported.
In total, these initiatives will add more than 100 pieces of equipment on national routes aimed at improving safety and raising transportation standards in Uruguay.
Finally, he pointed out that coordination is being strengthened between the Road Monitoring Centers (cameras and radars) and Transportation (weighing), and that agreements are also advancing with the Road Corporation of Uruguay (CVU) and the Ministry of the Interior for the exchange of technology and information.
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