The Ministry of Transport ( es, Ministerio de Transporte) of

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is a

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of the national executive power that manages issues pertaining to land, air and sea transportation within the country's limits. First founded in 1949, the Ministry was most recently split off from the

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in 2015. The position of minister has been vacant since 23 April 2021, when Mario Meoni was killed in a car accident.

History

The first Ministry of Transport was formed in 1949 during the presidency of

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. The first minister responsible was army colonel Juan Francisco Castro, who was in office until 1952. The military governments of

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and

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retained the ministry in their cabinets, but in 1958 the government of

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downgraded the ministry to a secretariat, which in the following years went on to depend on various ministries, chiefly that of

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. In 2012, during the presidency of

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, the

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was renamed as Ministry of the Interior and Transport, as the secretariat was moved to the Interior Ministry and regained ministerial status, albeit jointly with the Interior portfolio. The presidency of

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saw the Transport portfolio upgraded to ministerial status once again; the first minister responsible this time was

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Structure and dependencies

The Ministry of Transport counts with a number of centralized and decentralized dependencies. The centralized dependencies, as in other government ministers, are known as secretariats (''secretarías'') and undersecretariats (''subsecretarías''): *Secretariat of Transport Management (''Secretaría de Gestión de Transporte'') **Undersecretariat of Rail Transport (''Subsecretaría de Transporte Ferroviario'') **Undersecretariat of Automotive Transport (''Subsecretaría de Transporte Automotor'') **Undersecretariat of Ports, Waterways and Merchant Navy (''Subsecretaría de Puertos, Vías Navegables y Marina Mercante'') *Secretariat of Transport Planning (''Secretaría de Planificación de Transporte'') **Undersecretariat of Transport Planning and Coordination (''Subsecretaría de Planificación y Coordinación de Transporte'') *Secretariat of Interjurisdictional Articulation (''Secretaría de Articulación Interjurisdiccional'') **Undersecretariat of Transport Economic and Financial Policy (''Subsecretaría de Política Económica y Financiera de Transporte'') **Undersecretariat of Strategic Projects and Technologic Development (''Subsecretaría de Proyectos Estratégicos y Desarrollo Tecnológico'') Several decentralized agencies also report to the Ministry of Transport, such as the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV), the National Transport Regulation Commission (CNRT), the Transport Safety Board, the

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(ANAC), the

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, the National Airports System Regulatory Body (ORSNA), the Argentine National Transport Institute, and the General Ports Administration (AGP). Several state-owned enterprises are also overseen by the Ministry of Transport, such as Argentina's

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, Operadora Ferroviaria S.E.,

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, ADIFSE, and

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Headquarters

The Ministry of Transport is headquartered in the Palacio de Hacienda ("Palace of the Treasury"), located in the Monserrat ''

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'' in

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, which has historically housed the

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(formerly known as the Ministry of the Treasury) as well as other ministerial portfolios such as

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and

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. The building was built in two stages from 1937 to 1950 and stands on Hipólito Yrigoyen street, across from the emblematic

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square and the

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, seat of the

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List of ministers

References

External links

* {{Argentine government

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1949 establishments in Argentina