CNG will replace diesel on a Heavy and Medium-Duty vehicles long-distance route

Buenos Aires, September 26th, 2011. The departure of the units is scheduled for November 8th from the city of Mendoza, towards Córdoba-Rosario with a CNG VW 17-250 semi-trailer truck carrying an engine– electricity generator with a natural gas SCANIA 124 TURBO of 380 hp and a motor pump with a natural gas 6 liter turbo and 200 hp Mercedes.  From Rosario, along with other vehicles, mainly CNG multipurpose vehicles –Siena, Fiorino, Sprinter, Partner, Kangoo, Cerato, Kia, among others– it will pass by different cities and will arrive to Buenos Aires on November 9th, on a parade around the city’s major avenues to end at the Ochre Pavilion of La Rural, where the exhibition will be opened the next day.

This action is in line with the inauguration of the “Blue Corridor” concept, the name internationally given to the route covered by natural gas heavy and medium-duty vehicles plying across long distances, since the blue color is typically connected with blue sky and the contribution to the idea of a cleaner air.

Thus, it will be inaugurated the Argentine section of the Bioceanic Blue Corridor Project from the MERCOSUR that will join Valparaíso, Buenos Aires and Río de Janeiro, which already has basic CNG refuelling infrastructure along the route.  

The event is also supported by OEMs like Fiat and Kia, gas distribution companies such as Gas Gas Natural Fenosa and Litoral Gas, which team up with companies from the CNG sector like Esigas, Kioshi, Galileo, Pelmag, etc.

“It is the first time in 26 years that the CNG industry organizes an activity of this kind. We are pioneers and we are proving it”, said Fausto Maranca, president of the CAGNC (Argentine Chamber for CNG).