{"id":9212,"date":"2015-01-26T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/01\/26\/brazil-misses-out-on-port-investment\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:47:00","slug":"brazil-misses-out-on-port-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/brazil-misses-out-on-port-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil misses out on port investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, $3bn was theoretically available, meaning that some $2.24bn\u2013 or 73.4% &#8211; was not invested.<\/p>\n<p>These figures, published by consultant R.Amaral &amp; Associados, are significant, given that the country&#8217;s Social Economic and Development Bank (BNDES) has confirmed it is lending up to $812m to Cuba to fund construction of its Mariel Port.<\/p>\n<p>2010 was SEP&#8217;s best year to date, when it managed to spend 36.6% of its then budget of $32.71m. In the first ten months of last year, just 16.7% of the budgetary allocation of $503m was spent.<\/p>\n<p>SEP now has a new man in charge: Congressman Edinho Ara\u00fajo. However, his main challenge is to boost port investment at a time when the government is trying to balance the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazils Ports Secretariat (SEP) has invested just $824m in its national port network since SEP\u2019s establishment in 2007.<\/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-9212","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\/9212","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=9212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9212"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}