{"id":7595,"date":"2008-08-28T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2008\/08\/28\/brazils-ports-industry-in-flux\/"},"modified":"2008-08-28T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T11:24:00","slug":"brazils-ports-industry-in-flux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/brazils-ports-industry-in-flux\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazils ports industry in flux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abratec claims that because Portonave relies purely on third-party traffic, it is trading illegally under current legislation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Brazil&#8217;s presidential chief of staff, Dilma Rousseff, recently confirmed that the government will change regulations governing private port terminals to make them more flexible. &#8220;We are interested in the participation of private companies in the sector and so we are working on a transparent regulatory framework,&#8221; Mr Rousseff said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Brazil&#8217;s Public Affairs Ministry is investigating the granting of concession areas in the Port of Santos that were awarded directly by the Port Authority, Codesp, without going through a public tender process.<\/p>\n<p>This could result in criminal action similar to that undertaken in February against the ex-commercial director of the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian Public Container Terminal Users Association (Abratec) is questioning the legality of having a private container terminal, Portonave, in the port of Navegantes, compete with the Port of Itaja\u00ed Container Terminal (Teconvi), which is a publicly owned facility.<\/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":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}