Timbúes Multipurpose Terminal — port infrastructure (Terminal Timbúes SA)

Terminal Timbúes S.A. (CUIT 30-71891156-3), registered at Avenida Cacique Mangoré 14264, Comuna de Timbúes. It is a company incorporated as a vehicle with an exclusive purpose for the regime, not a dedicated branch: you invoice it directly.

The owning group is Terminales y Servicios S.A., of the Ondarcuhu family, with Nicolás Bahr as CEO; the group's commercial operation sits in that company, not in the project vehicle. ⛔ WHAT TO KNOW BEFORE TRYING: there is no open procurement portal, no published tender documents and no works contractor with a public name, so you cannot come in through the main contractor's chain as in the other two projects in this batch. The only stated door for a new supplier is the terminal's institutional contact. ⭐ What works in your favour: the project committed to the state that 87% of what it spends on suppliers goes to local suppliers, more than four times the regime's floor.

Being a local supplier is what this project committed to the state at the highest level in the portfolio: 87% of everything it spends on suppliers, goods and infrastructure works, in construction and in operation. verif · Nov 20, 2025 ↗Verbatim from the accession act: «eighty-seven per cent (87%) of the total investment amount earmarked for the payment of suppliers, goods and infrastructure works, during the construction and operation stages, corresponds to local suppliers; a percentage that exceeds the twenty per cent (20%) committed by the applicant and required by the regulations in force». ⭐ What that means for a local SME: the commitment is already signed and it is more than four times the legal floor, so the «there is no local supply» argument is expensive for the company. ⛔ What it does not mean: that there is a roll, a tender document or a quota by category. There is no public compliance dashboard.

The district's port regime requires «Compre Local» as a preference, not a quota: it gives priority to suppliers based in Timbúes only at equal quality and price. The only percentage in the rule — the 50% — is about STAFF, not purchases. verif · Oct 8, 2025 ↗Article 10 of communal Ordenanza 135/2025, verbatim: beneficiaries «shall adopt an active "Buy Local" policy, giving preference — at equal conditions of quality and price — to suppliers of goods and services based in the district of Timbúes». The same article, on employment: «efforts shall be made so that at least fifty per cent (50%) of the operational and permanent staff required are citizens resident in the town of Timbúes, provided they meet the suitability conditions for the role». And if there are not enough trained people, article 11 obliges the beneficiary to run or support training programmes with educational institutions, vocational training centres, unions or employment agencies. ⛔ CAREFUL BEFORE APPLYING THIS ORDINANCE TO THIS PROJECT: article 1 says the regime applies «to all port initiatives submitted after this ordinance comes into force», and the recitals guarantee that «projects already incorporated under Ordenanza 038/2023 fully retain the conditions and benefits granted at the time». The Comuna linked this company to the earlier regime in March 2024, so it most likely falls under 038/2023, whose text is not published.

To import and sell to the project: a CUIT with tax credentials of level 3 or above, registration in the importer/exporter profile under Resolución General 5472/24, already being a supplier to the project, and identifying the goods to be imported. verif · Sep 6, 2026 ↗Requirements taken verbatim from the national supplier accession procedure sheet. The procedure is free and grants exemption from import duties, from the statistical fee and destination-verification fee, and from VAT, additional VAT and income tax withholdings on imports. ⚠️ The order matters and it is counter-intuitive: first you have to be a supplier to the project, and only then do you apply for the franchise. It is not a way in, it is a saving for those already in.

The Comuna requires the terminal to hire local labor, train it and sponsor local schools and sports clubs — but it requires this WITHOUT a percentage: these are duties written in words, not in numbers, and that is the difference with the 87% the project did sign with the national government. prob · May 1, 2023 ↗The communal government explains on its own site that its Special Port Competitiveness Regime — approved in May 2023 by communal president Antonio Fiorenza — grants «a series of tax benefits on communal taxes and charges» to whoever builds a port in the district, and that in exchange the companies established there «must provide for the hiring of local labor, job training and corporate social responsibility through the sponsorship of existing educational and sports establishments, contributing goods and supplies to improve their services». The same page names the two companies that bought land in the port industrial zone and applied to join: Terminales y Servicios S.A. and Agricultores Federados Argentinos (AFA).