# Paysandu (UY PDU)

**UN/LOCODE:** UY PDU  
**Country:** Uruguay  
**Water Body:** Rio de la Plata; South Atlantic Ocean  
**Harbor Size:** Small  
**Harbor Type:** River (Natural)  
**GPS:** -32.3167, -58.0667

Paysandú is best understood as a shallow-draft river port whose commercial role is modest and uneven rather than a gateway for ocean cargo. Dredging on the Río Uruguay guarantees only about 5.2 m (17 ft) of draft, capping vessel size, and 2025 throughput was just over 17,600 tonnes with no exports recorded. The ANP wharf offers a 59 m cabotage berth and a 40-tonne multipurpose crane able to lift containers or grain, but liner services — most recently Guaraní Feeder until 2022 — have started and stopped repeatedly. For dependable container or bulk-export routings, shippers use Nueva Palmira for grain transhipment or Montevideo for oceangoing boxes, treating Paysandú as a regional feeder and project-cargo point.

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