Ports of Paraná will be the first in the country to have decentralized management

Paraná will be the first state in Brazil to have decentralized management and assume the management of the exploration contracts of the organized ports. The signing of the delegation of competence agreement was made by the Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, and by the Governor of Paraná, Carlos Massa Ratinho Junior, after the auction of lease of three port areas at B3, São Paulo Stock Exchange.

The change will give more efficiency and speed to the processes involving the Paraná terminals. With this, the leasing of the port facilities, which were defined by the National Secretariat of Ports, are now controlled by the public company Portos do Paraná.

The minister explained that the Federal Government has established criteria for port authorities to exercise greater management autonomy, including leases, supervision, and monitoring of contracts. “We know that this will make the processes more agile and, consequently, will make the investment faster,” explained Freitas.

The President of the Ports of Paranaguá and Antonina (APPA), Luiz Fernando Garcia da Silva, said that the Paraná administration meets all the necessary conditions to assume the assignment – from the drafting of the edicts and the bidding procedures for the leases, until the management of the contracts and the supervision of their execution. “The local administration is closer to the companies, knows all the particularities of the region and has an organizational, physical, and functional structure to safely and competently manage the operation of the port facilities,” he explained.

What Ordinance 574 says

To receive the federal delegation, the state administration of the ports was approved after an extensive process of analysis and validation, in compliance with Ordinance 574 of December 26, 2018, issued by the former Ministry of Transport.

Paraná received a score of 8.5 in the Port Authority Management Index (IGAP), which measures performance indicators to attest to the port management capacity. These are financial, accounting, administrative transparency, tax and labor regularity ratios, in addition to maintaining waterway access.

On a scale of up to ten, a grade higher than 6 points may give decentralized administrations the right to issue notices, bid for terminal leases, and oversee the execution of contracts. A score above 8 also allows for the economic rebalancing of the contracts, negotiating early extensions through new investments and deliberating on the expansion of the leased area.

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