National highways: to the private sector via tolls

The State stops operating the national toll routes: Decreto 97/2025 authorizes the total privatization of Corredores Viales S.A. (a state company) under the modality of a public-works toll concession, and orders its dissolution and subsequent liquidation once the contracts are awarded and perfected (art. 2 subs. c). The company had been declared 'subject to privatization' by the Ley Bases (27.742). The decree notes that 3,402 km of its layout (~45% of the total routes assigned to the company) are not in optimal condition, as grounds for the measure — it is NOT the size of the network to be put under concession. Execution is already advancing in stages: the Federal Concessions Network awarded STAGE II-A by Resolución 706/2026 (MECON): 1,871 km of national routes in Buenos Aires and La Pampa, a 20-year toll concession (Ley 17.520) WITHOUT State contribution, with the concessionaires taking over operation on Jul 1, 2026 (South-Atlantic-South Access section: CONCRET NOR/MARCALBA/POSE/COARCO; Pampa section: Construcciones Electromecánicas del Oeste). STAGE II-B, put out to tender by Resolución 112/2026 (+2,500 km across 4 sections), was AWARDED by Resolución 1149/2026 (MECON, signed Jul 27, 2026, Official Gazette Jul 28): the Mediterráneo and Portuario Sur sections to CREDITECH S.A.-PLANTEL S.A., the Puntano section to BASAA S.A.-CECOSA S.A. and the Portuario Norte section to CPC S.A., also as 20-year toll concessions. STAGE III (3,962 km across eight sections and 11 provinces) was awarded by Resolución 1379/2026 (MECON, Official Gazette Aug 24, 2026), also as 20-year toll concessions, and its contracts were signed on Oct 6, 2026: the concessionaires take possession from Oct 7. With it, the Federal Concessions Network reaches 16 sections and more than 9,000 km under private management. verif · Oct 6, 2026 ↗

Decree signed on Feb 14, 2025 and published in the Official Gazette on Feb 17, 2025. In force since its publication; it authorizes the privatization procedure, whose execution advances in stages via later resolutions (not verified). verif · Feb 17, 2025 ↗

Corredores Viales S.A. (a state company to be dissolved and liquidated), the National Highway Directorate, the Ministry of Economy as enforcement authority, the future private concessionaires that take the sections by toll and the users of the national routes under the company's administration. [The concrete names of the awarded concessionaires come from secondary sources: we do not list them as data until we see them in the primary source.] verif · Feb 14, 2025 ↗