The definitive announcement of the first dredging concession of the country, which encompasses the entire aquavary access channel to the ports of Paranaguá (PR) and Antonina (PR), should be published by July 15.
The information was given by the National Secretary of Ports, Alex Ávila, in an interview with CNN. The notice will be analyzed at a board of directors of Antaq (National Waterway Transportation Agency) on July 11.
According to Ávila, the Ministry of Ports and Airports decided to accept all determinations and recommendations made by the Federal Court of Audit (TCU).
Based on conversations with interested companies, the secretary bets on at least two offers in the event.
“Nothing indicates that it will be auction of a [proposta] only. We believe there will be dispute, “says Ávila.
The announcement will provide a minimum participation of 15%, in consortia, of dredging companies.
For the secretary, consortia are most likely to form between dredging companies and port terminal operators in Paraná.
In the first category, he claims to have noticed the interest of Brazilian DTA Engenharia, Dutch Van Oord and Belgian Jan de Nul.
With the publication of the announcement, the tendency is to effectively auction between late August and early September. The ministry talks to B3, in São Paulo, about possible dates.
The second port lease block of 2025 will be offered in the same auction.
The block includes the Terminals of Solid Granks VCD29, in Vila do Conde (PA), and POA26, in Porto Alegre; Offshore RDJ07 Logistics Support Terminal in Rio de Janeiro; and the TMP passenger terminal in Maceió.
Uncomfortable
The concession of the Water Access Channel to the Paranaguá and Antonina Port Complex will be the first of its kind in Brazil and Latin America.
The complex is the largest in the country in the movement of soy (grains, bran and oil) and accounts for the discharge of 33% of fertilizers imported by Brazil.
It also has one of the largest Chinese investments in the Brazilian port sector, with China Merchants, which operates the Paranaguá container terminal.
The intention is to speed up a series of works and interventions that often drag themselves for years, amid difficulty with control bodies and judicial resources, when performed by the public power.
The future dealers will be responsible for the management of assets for 25 years and will make investments of R $ 1.2 billion.
A port’s access channel is the way by which vessels travel until you do the cribs to carry or unload their goods.
In addition to maintenance dredging, it will need to deepen the silence from 13.5 meters to 15.5 meters. This will allow the arrival of larger ships to the Paraná ports.
Future dealership will also perform investments and improvements in signaling, nautical marking and implementation of a new vessel traffic monitoring and control system.
Among the adjustments determined or recommended by TCU are a change in demand risk sharing and the maximum discount establishment of 12.79% on reference rates that will be applied to the loads.
In the auction, if a group presents an offer that reaches this maximum discount, the dispute criterion becomes the largest of grant value.
