Protests against Chilean privatisation

They claim that privatisations will create monopolies and consequently result in a loss of employment.

Shipping agents instead propose boosting the existing multi-operator model in terminals. In all, 86.5% of Chilean ports with more than nine metres of draught are currently operated as 20-30 year concessions.

For their part, port workers want concessions at the ports of Valparaiso and San Antonio to be issued at the same time as a means of protecting jobs. However, they totally reject the latest round of government port concessions.