Ports of Portugal SA?

A few years ago that some people in the industry and other sectors have been talking about
possibility of creating a society Ports of Portugal SA, a holding company that is as
includes all current SA administration of ports, either as a single administration
port of Portuguese ports, by replacing all the existing ones.
If the first case of creating a holding company, would keep the current model with a
administration port by port, by making some coordination of strategies and policies
national level, without jeopardizing the operational competition between ports and proximity
port of general economic actors
cos sites, which seems logical to
national interest, we would have certainly a cost savings in managing the sector,
rather, what is not appropriate to the moment in which we live.
In the second case, the creation of a single administration
, Replacing all existing
port authorities, would coordinate strategies and certainly a small
savings in administration costs of the sector, without reflections visible in port costs and
with minimal positive reflections on the state budget a few thousand euros, through
increasing corporate tax and dividends of national port authority
But we would have about
me many negative effects on the sector and for business customers of the ports and the
economy.
Several studies have demonstrated the need for closeness and autonomy
port authorities at each port to manage even in time and a flexible
Private management similar to the operational problems of each port. An authority
national port is certainly far from reality, leading questions have
to be decided at the highest level and bureaucratic, indeed running as a
impediment to competitiveness and agility of ports in response to changing business
port and the needs of agents and corporate customers.
On the other hand, there are also several studies that show that competition between
ports is beneficial to ginasticar   each of the ports and make them stronger to compete with
foreign ports. Competition is the government become more competitive,
reduce costs and fees, strive for competitiveness of the other agents and
companies providing services to the ports and develop innovative solutions that go
meeting customer needs cargo and vessels.
A single administration fees tend to harminizar certainly over, ending the
competition and the need to reduce costs, which creates stability to fatten up
frameworks and investment projects and costs of dubious usefulness and suitability for
customers, creating a cycle of habitual lack of competitiveness in public administration
monopolistic enterprises. This is an important risk not to be overlooked, since it can bring
increased costs for customers of major ports, choking off the companies and reducing
indirectly their contribution to employment and the state budget through
IRC and IRS.
What is important in a model of port governance is to reduce costs,
ensuring coordination at the level of strategy and investment and common resources, without
endanger the operational autonomy of port authorities and competition between
between port terminals and ports, including port authorities, promoting
competitiveness and the positive effects on the economy.
It is recognized that the ports are important centers of regional and national levels and
Development also
wealth creation and employment. What is important is that the ports are developed, which
are competitive and modern, to become important economic centers with effects on
economy.
In a moment of crisis in domestic demand such as ours, the ports can form a
important in reducing the cost of importing products not produced
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internally, and especially in the export as an alternative for the disposal of
domestic production, guaranteeing at least the maintenance of jobs and
payment of tax and IRS to feed the state budget. Here's what should be the key
State intervention in ports in time of crisis: make ports more
COMPETITIVE instead of the face as a small source of increased dividends, it should be
face as a major source of export competitiveness and maintaining jobs and
direct tax to the state.
This view implies certainly a better coordination of ports in each region of some
way, in order to obtain future to more modern ports and economies of scale
in each sub-sector, but also the maintenance of competition between ports and their
agility and operational autonomy.
This view implies, and this is what is important in the short term, a radical change in
organization of each port, public authorities that have jurisdiction in ports
, Giving
primacy to the administration port on the other, control of providers
services on the market for manpower port in order to eliminate the costs parasites
ports, the obstacles to its development, the rates of return for firms above
market, wages above the average of the country, the lack of transparency and failure
operation of the laws of supply and demand in order to make ports more competitive
and make life easier for those who want to export, economic benefits and extended in
successive
economy.
I have ideas about what would be the best solution that I will not explain here, but let the
imagination of every reader that range of governance models to achieve the aims
I have stated and what measures would be necessary micro and macro ports to make them
more
Cheap and facilitators of the crisis.