{"id":8858,"date":"2013-06-17T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2013\/06\/17\/brazil-ramps-up-concessioning-activity\/"},"modified":"2013-06-17T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T11:33:00","slug":"brazil-ramps-up-concessioning-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/brazil-ramps-up-concessioning-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil ramps up concessioning activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Santos and ports in the state of Par\u00e1 will be the first, with tender documents to be issued in October, followed by auctions in November. The second batch will involve ports at Paranagu\u00e1, Salvador and Arat\u00fa; the third, ports at Suape, Itaqui, plus others in the north and north-east; with the fourth round encompassing Vit\u00f3ria, Rio de Janeiro, S\u00e3o Francisco do Sul, Itajai and Rio Grande.<\/p>\n<p>Port company CODESP estimates that, as a result of new tenders, Santos will receive investment of $3.5bn over the next ten years, as annual traffic rises from 104m tons to 230m tons.<\/p>\n<p>The new terminal concessions are the result of the adoption into law of interim legislation on ports recently introduced by the government, with the president exercising her right to veto 10 proposed amendments.<\/p>\n<p>Antaq reports it has already received 123 requests to progress projects linked to changes in the law, including 63 port terminals. The Special Ports Secretariat (SEP) says that of 161 port terminals that it wants to put out to concession, an initial batch of 52 terminals should be ready this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazils National Waterway Transport Agency (Antaq) has scheduled four rounds of tenders covering the privatisation of terminals at Brazilian ports.<\/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-8858","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\/8858","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=8858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8858"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}