RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Paraguay's river traffic has grown from 700,000 tons in the late 1980s to 23 million tons today, with 343 tugboats and 100 container ships. This has made the country the largest river fleet in South America and the third-largest globally, but the state lacks an institutional framework for multimodal transport.
Despite the steady growth of river and land transport since the democratic era, the Paraguayan state has not adapted to global developments.
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