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Port wants to keep short sea discounts
01 Mar 2007
Santos Port Authority (Codesp) has asked the Port Authority Council (CAP) to be allowed to keep offering 50% discounts for transhipment and cabotage traffic in the port for at least a further six months.
It argues that, since this measure was introduced in 2006, it has boosted traffic by 15.3%.
CAP initially introduced discounts for six months,extended for a further six months, as a means of boosting short sea traffic between Brazil’s various regions and therefore taking polluting traffic off the roads. Although scheduled to end on December 31, 2006, it was approved for a further 30 days. Codesp believes it needs another six months to fully analyse the longer term effects of the programme. Transhipped and cabotage containers at Santos rose from 107,947 units in 2005 to 224,465 units last year.
