The Minister of Ports and Airports, Márcio França, said that his goal is to make the Port of Santos one of the ten largest ports in terms of container movement in the world. França reiterated that the port authorities, federal state companies that manage the country’s ports, such as the Santos Port Authority (SPA), will not be privatized under the current Government. But “there is no problem with privatizing the terminals.” “Seven of the ten largest ports in the world today are in China,” the minister said. They are all managed by public port authorities. So it is not true that their efficiency is undermined for being public. We must learn to work with what is public and efficient. We want to place Santos among the top ten in the world,” commented França.
Sources: A Tribuna/Datamar News