Rio de Janeiro public port to have customs area reestablished this year

A part of the public dock in the Port of Rio de Janeiro is soon to have a customs clearance area set up once again. This request was submitted by Companhia Docas do Rio de Janeiro (CDRJ) to the Federal Revenue Service in February this year.  Currently, the CDRJ has hired a consulting and auditing company to verify the efficiency and security of the computerized access control systems to the port and a report of this analysis will be delivered to the Federal Revenue, together with complementary documents that the agency required.  The director-president of CDRJ, Francisco Antonio de Magalhães Laranjeira stressed the importance of this measure: “With a customs area once again in place on the public dock at the Port of Rio de Janeiro, CDRJ will have more of its own resources to invest in port infrastructure”.

The first stage in re-establishing a customs clearance area in Rio de Janeiro was to clear all federal taxes due, after 15 years of being in debt. The Debt Clearance Certificate (CND) was an indispensable requirement of the Federal Revenue for the recovery of customs.

The Port of Rio de Janeiro holds the eighth position in the ranking of exporting ports in Brazil and has seen an 8.66% drop in TEU handling in the first five months of 2020 compared to the same period last year. On the import side, the port occupies the seventh position, with a fall of 9.71% in TEU movement during the first five months of 2020 in relation to January to May 2019, according to DataLiner data.

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