{"id":8485,"date":"2012-05-22T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2012\/05\/22\/brazils-private-operators-face-tender-threat\/"},"modified":"2012-05-22T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T09:20:00","slug":"brazils-private-operators-face-tender-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/brazils-private-operators-face-tender-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazils private operators face tender threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If they aren&#8217;t able to do this, their terminals will be offered as open tenders.<\/p>\n<p>Those affected are: Cotegipe, Portonave, Itapo\u00e1 and Embraport.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commission&#8217;s Department of Privatisation and Regulatory Authority (SEFID), the four operators were granted concessions as effectively private terminals, but mainly handle third-party cargo rather than their own, effectively being public terminals. This type of operation is only permitted following an open tender.<\/p>\n<p>The operators, which were given their operating licence by the National Waterways Transport Agency (Antaq), have already invested $1.8bn.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Brazilian Association of Port Terminals (ABTP), Manteli Wilen, suggests that if this measure is approved by the Audit Commission&#8217;s management board, the whole concept of private terminals per se will have to be seriously revisited.<\/p>\n<p>How, he asks, will it be possible to offer a tender, if the owner of the land is also the concessionaire?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Audit Commission of the Brazilian government has asked for four of the country\u2019s private container terminal operators to demonstrate within 90 days that they are handling a balance of their own cargo and that of third parties.<\/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":[56],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","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=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}