MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Friday, May 29th 2026 - 06:31 UTC
For Paraguay, the corridor carries a particular strategic dimension
The Capricorn Bioceanic Corridor, one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects underway in South America, is moving through its final stretch on the border between Paraguay and Brazil, with just twenty-one metres remaining to complete the physical link of the so-called Bioceanic Bridge, according to Paraguayan government authorities cited in late May 2026. The structure, built over the Paraguay River, will connect the cities of Carmelo Peralta, in the department of Alto Paraguay, and Puerto Murtinho, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and constitutes one of the central pieces of a logistics corridor that will link the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific across four South American countries.
The corridor, extending more than 3,200 kilometres, will integrate overland routes and logistics centres traversing western Brazil, the Paraguayan Chaco, northern Argentina, and the Andean region of Chile, until reaching the Pacific ports of Antofagasta and Iquique. The initiative, which has been negotiated for more than a decade by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay, seeks to significantly shorten export times to Asian markets. Preliminary estimates handled by the governments involved suggest that certain commercial routes could save between ten and fifteen days of transit toward destinations such as China, Japan, and South Korea, compared with current shipping through Atlantic ports.
