{"id":4001,"date":"2014-07-22T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2014\/07\/22\/codesp-to-adopt-new-management-style\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:02:00","slug":"codesp-to-adopt-new-management-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2014\/07\/22\/codesp-to-adopt-new-management-style\/","title":{"rendered":"CODESP to adopt new management style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article 64 makes it incumbent on port companies to commit to corporate goals with the Secretary of Ports. If goals are not achieved, this can lead to an enforced change of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>This move should allow port companies to operate in a more entrepreneurial way and reduce the amount of nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the move is also being seen as excessive centralisation of ports, which means that politicians can impose their own will, thereby marginalising the wishes of the port community in major decisions. Although others believe that the removal of local politicians from the decision process will make port companies more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>At CODESP, the new president is expected to streamline the process allowing the creation of new warehouses in the production area, which may help regulate cargo flow during the harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Efficiency improvements are certainly needed, since Centronave, whose 23 shipping line members account for 70% of all Brazilian exports, claims that in 2013 lines lost up to $175m as a result of port delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appointment of Angelino Caputo de Oliveira as head of S\u00e3o Paulo State Dock Company (CODESP) is a further step towards centralised management of Brazilian port companies &#8211; which is a prerequisite of the new Ports Law adopted by nation in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4001"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}