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Burden of bureaucracy
01 Jun 2007
Terminales Internacionales del Ecuador (TIDE) believes that there are bureaucratic obstacles in place that mean potential cargo is still being displaced to terminals in Guayaquil rather than going through its port of Manta.
Although the company refuses to specify exactly what these obstacles are, it says that they relate to customs control, the anti-narcotic units and also to Port Authority bureaucracy.
But the garden is not rosy at Guayaquil either, with the port authority forced to issue a 10-day ultimatum to eight operators in the port in April to undertake corrective measures to upgrade existing infrastructure and services.
This follows a report which suggested that only 40% of infrastructure developments laid out in their contracts had actually been put in place.
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