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Government to auction first areas in ports of Pará and Santos

Event will be on December 9, with the expectation of raising up to R$ 1 billion

BRASÍLIA – The National Waterway Transport Agency (Antaq) published on Monday night the auction notices for the first block of port leases in the country, within the scope of the Investment Program in Logistics (PIL) launched in December 2012. Three years then, the auction will take place on December 9, at BM&F Bovespa, in São Paulo. With this process, the government hopes to collect up to R$ 1 billion in grants this year.

Four areas will be put up for auction in this first phase, two of which are in the Port of Santos for handling and storing paper, cellulose and general cargo. Another in the same port to be auctioned will be used to move vegetable solid bulk. And the last one is, in the port of Vila do Conde, in Pará, also for vegetable solid bulk, and is considered the most competitive among potential investors.

According to notices published by Antaq, the two areas of paper, cellulose and general cargo in Santos will be auctioned at the same time, so that the result necessarily brings two different winners.

For Mario Povia, general director of Antaq, this model ensures greater competition. According to the way in which the notice was made, he said, any logistics company or even financial investors with prospects for operating in the sector will be able to compete in these two areas. The government had understood that, as there were few companies operating in the pulp sector in the country, they could distribute these two areas among themselves, weakening the tax collection.

— There is a service tariff forecast in the notice, because there is a great possibility that the winner in this area is not necessarily a pulp company, but a service provider. The interesting thing is that, if we were in the old model, which considered the owner's ability to handle cargo, there was a great tendency for only the sector's own agents to participate. Now, you can have a logistics operator, a general cargo company and even a pension fund – said Povia to GLOBO.

As has been the case in recent public notices in other areas of infrastructure, this ensures isonomic conditions for the participation of foreign companies, all they have to do is present documents equivalent to those required of Brazilian companies.

— There is a concern to make the auctions more attractive.

According to Povia, shortly after this round, four other areas in Pará will be offered. The auction on December 9, according to him, will serve to measure the market's appetite, since the government has not auctioned new leases for a long time. The process remained under analysis for two years by the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), which requested profound changes in the process.

Source: The Globe

By Danilo Fariello

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