Antaq authorizes rate increase of Ports
Foto: Antônio Melcop
The Board
of ANTAQ authorized at a meeting of his collegiate, on Monday (4), in
Different
adjustments have been approved for the top ten port authorities and other
administrations, according to the date of the last adjustment and the
generation of new services through the ports.
In
accordance with Article 1 of Resolution, port authorities shall send to ANTAQ,
in 15 days, a copy of the tariff tables, including the adjusted values,
application of standards, exemptions and minimum fees.
The adjustments involve 37 organized ports and go into immediately effect, since they already have the endorsement of the Ports Secretariat, as grantor, and the Ministry of Finance, the latter responsible for the approval of new tariff values.
In the case
of the 19 largest national public ports, which account for over 90% of cargo
handling for this type of port facility, the average adjustments reached 31.7%,
as in the case of the
Rates of
ports the port authorities of
In the case
of the Port Authority of Suape, the increase was 30.5%. Have ports linked to
Companhia Docas do Pará (CDP), the rates had an average increase of 25.7%, and
the Superintendent of the
Codeba
(Bahia), Codesa (ES) and APSFS (SC), whose tariffs have suffered the latest
readjustment, now were adjusted by 20.7%, 24.7% and 14.4%, respectively. The
largest average increases, however, occurred in the rates of Imbituba port
(39%),
In the case
of companies docks of
In the
ports of CDRJ, for example, the restructuring took into account the creation of
new tariff items for supply-boat operation in support of offshore platforms.
The creation of these tariff items was due to Petrobras' demand for operating
their vessels to support oil rigs at sea.
Already in
the
According
to the director general of ANTAQ, Mario Povia, the adjustments represent the
first step in establishing a new pricing model for the Brazilian ports.
"Some
of these rates were the same values for ten years, such as the Port of
Santos, others remained frozen up to twenty years," Povia said, adding
that further increases can occur or even decrease in tariff values from the
implementation of the new tariff system, which is under development in ANTAQ
and providing for standardization of rates in all ports and the review of
charged services.
Source:
Antaq
