Despite the container movement record of the Port of Montevideo during 2023, from Wide Front They questioned the National Port Administration (ANP) for the results of last year’s balance.
Echoing the situation, the representative of the FA as vocal director in ANP, Alejandra Koch, He assured that the 2023 numbers show “a dangerous drop in the result for the year, inadequate financial planning and a significant decrease in profits.” investments”, beyond the good news of dredging to 14 meters.
For Koch, the scenario will lead the ANP to “a decline in the percentages it maintained with respect to the income, leaving only the possible intervention of the private sector, weakening the operation in the public docks and to the ANP itself in its role.”
The leader assured that this puts “at risk” the functions in charge of the ANP, “with a decrease in availability that will impact future administrations.”
The fall in investments and the role of Katoen Natie
Koch reviewed that the budgeted investments decreased by 40% compared to 2022 and 61% compared to 2021 and expressed: “The execution obeys those planned in the previous administration. ANP availability is decreasing dramatically.”
He also detailed that in February 2020 the current administration received a cash amount of 66,501,980.62 dollars in works planned and financed after the FA government and contrasted that on December 31, the cash balance was 22,826,370.40, with “almost zero planned investment.”
On the other hand, he criticized the Operative result of the year, which was 8.02% lower than the previous year, while the Final score It was 52.74% lower than the previous year.
“As if this were not enough, the business that has grown the most in recent times has been containers and as expected, it will continue to grow. The difference, today and for 60 years, is that the one who will win will be the Belgian company Katoen Natie, burdening the State with economic commitments of enormous magnitude that, together with the behavior of declining availabilities, put at risk the future of the ANP and its role as a public company,” he stated.
Source: Ambito
