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New Electronic Cargo Guide will modernize transportation control on national routes
06/12/2025
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The Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) prepares a new electronic cargo guide. The national director of Transportation, Felipe Martín, presented the instrument and announced that new weighing and control technology began to be incorporated into national routes, capable of evaluating moving vehicles.
The national director of Transportation, Felipe Martín, participated in the Expo Carga 2025, where he presented the progress of the new Electronic Guide for Freight Transportation, a tool that he considered key to the digitalization of Uruguayan transportation.
This document, which is required for all cargo transportation, contains information about the vehicle, details of the trip and also the cargo transported. In addition to allowing compliance with regulations to be controlled, it provides information on the loads circulating in the country.
The new system will allow managing cargo guides online, through a web platform and a mobile application, with secure authentication through digital identity.
“The cargo guide tries 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.
Incorporation of intelligent gantries for weighing and control
In another order, he explained that the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP) is advancing in the incorporation of new weighing and control technology. Currently there are 32 fixed scales on the different national routes, equipped with the latest generation systems.
In the next 24 months, smart gates will be added capable of identifying vehicles and verifying in seconds whether they are circulating in regulatory conditions. This technology allows the vehicle to be evaluated while traveling on the road, without the need to stop it or divert it to a static weighing station.
The first was already installed at the intersection of routes No. 12 and No. 55, he reported.
Mobile weighing systems from January 2026
Likewise, 10 vans with mobile weighing systems will 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.
