São Paulo – The new regulatory framework for Brazilian ports, the challenges and investments necessary for the next years, and the relations of the sector with the government will be discussed by the president of the Brazilian Association of Port Terminals (ABTP), Wilen Manteli, on the 16th. Manteli will meet with entrepreneurs and exporters in the workshop “Ports- where are we going?”(Portos – para onde vamos?, in Portuguese), promoted by the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, in São Paulo.
“I will show the advances and setbacks the sector had in the last few years, mainly those which are foreseen in the regulatory framework for ports”, Manteli told ANBA.
Approved last June, the new regulatory framework answered to the old demands from the sector. One of them allows companies which operate in private terminals to move shipments by third parties, which was not allowed previously.
Other demands, however, were not contemplated in the draft approved by the National Congress. Last June, president Dilma Rousseff disallowed issues the sector considered important. One of them contemplated the renewal of the contracts for the terminal concessions as long as the leaseholder invested in it. Manteli argued that, without the warranty as whether to keep the terminal in the future or not, the entrepreneur was not safe enough to invest.
“In this sector, the investments and returns are made on a long-term basis. In the foreign market, that can mean until 60 years”, he said. Other demands made by the sector and not yet answered to are removing already-retired employees from the ports and expanding the pier to, at least, 350 meters. “The services at port terminals are more and more mechanized and less man-made. This [retired] labour increases costs”, he said.
Arab Brazilian Chamber’s CEO, Michel Alaby claims that the goal of the event is to clarify doubts on the new operations and rules of the sector. “We want to bring a specialist to offer members the opportunity to discuss extremely important issues for the future of Brazil”, he said. Some of the questions Alaby intends to touch on are the expenses the new framework will bring and the use of labour.
“I want to know which are the costs this legislation will bring. What it means in terms of increase or reduction of expenses for the Brazilian foreign commerce”, says Alaby.
Services
Workshop “Ports- where are we going?”(Portos – para onde vamos?, in Portuguese)
April 16th, at 10 am
Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Avenida Paulista, 326, 11th floor, Bela Vista, São Paulo, SP.
For further information, call: (+5511) 3283-4066
*Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça
