The company accuses it of not favoring free competition and demands that the dock reservation system be investigated.
The service company Montevideo port, Montecondenounced the National Administration of Ports (ANP) before him Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF)based on facts that they consider “anti-competitive” and that affect free competition.
The logistics company, which operates a sector of the port of Montevideo, has spent months denouncing that the ANP has carried out actions that affect “the free competition and harm foreign trade”, according to a statement published by the company.
The complaint was made before the Commission for the Promotion and Defense of Competition of the Ministry of Economy and Finance and it is the third that the ANP has carried out for the same reasons. According to the complaint, the agency “makes operational decisions that hinder or prevent users from using public docks and that do not allow operators to provide the required services.”
The statement cites two examples where, one of them is that on February 27 of this year the docking request of a company ship was blocked. Ipanema Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) on public docks. “This prevented the line from complying with its itinerary provided by the national foreign trade and that the cargo that could not be operated in Montevideo was unloaded in Buenos Aires,” the statement remarked. A similar situation occurred with the company Far East where they prevented them from docking at the public docks.
Montecon is calling for an investigation into the methods carried out in the pier reservation system and the reasons why public docks are not assigned when shipowners so request. “The participation of the ANP as a society of Terminal Cuenca del Plata SA It has been decisive for the State to take preferential measures in favor of this company, when the laws required it to work under a regime of free competition with the other port operators. The State is both judge and party,” the statement denounced.
Source: Ambito
