Port price monitoring to be done by September 30

The Port Price Monitoring System is intended to receive, through the Internet, information on gross service revenues from operations performed by port facilities and port operators.

The deadline for the submission of data for July 2019 to feed the Port Price Monitoring System (APP Module), maintained by ANTAQ, ends on September 30, according to Normative Resolution No. 31. The Agency’s Board of Directors approved the text at the 459th Ordinary Meeting, held on April 11, 2019.

The normative resolution applies to the administrations of the organized ports, the lessees of port facilities, the port operators, and the authorization holders of port facilities in the modalities dealt within art. 8 of Law No. 12,815, of 2013 (The following shall be operated by authorization, preceded by a public call or announcement and, where appropriate, by a public selection process, the port facilities located outside the organized port area, comprising the following modalities: I – private use terminal; II – cargo transhipment station; III – small public port facility; and IV – tourism port facility).

Companies that operate in the port sector with profiles of port operators, port authorities, authorized of port, and leasing facilities are required to send data, except those represented in Case No. 1016246-10.2019.4.01.3400, which is pending before the Federal Court of the Federal District, reached by the court decision of 9/16/2019.

Gross monthly service revenue is that which is obtained by providing port activities (quay services, warehousing, yard services, docking services, and basket services), including other revenues from the sale of ancillary services to these services, when charged separately, both in own account transactions and in third party transactions, earned in the referenced month.

Agents reached by Normative Resolution No. 31 are required to register with the Port Price Monitoring System, available on ANTAQ’s website and, through this system, forward information related to their revenues from the provision of port services. The APP Module will be accessed by the port service providers to provide information on: gross monthly service revenue, revenue according to the type of service provided; and quantities (TEUs, tons, number of volumes) associated with the revenues received. The information shall be forwarded by the end of the second month following the reference month for the provision of services.

According to ANTAQ’s Director General, Mário Povia, “the survey brings transparency and will show that port prices have been falling over the last few years.”

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