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In Mexico the hypothesis is thrown again to privatize the harbour authorities
Currently the 30 Administraciones Portuarias Integrales manage 60 harbour ports and 17 terminals
October 30, 2012
In Mexico the hypothesis is thrown again to privatize the Administraciones Portuarias Integrales (BEES), the 30 harbour authorities that manage 60 harbour ports and 17 terminals, of which 16 they are federal agencies, six civil servants, four municipal ones, three governed from the Nacional Bottom de Fomentation to Tourism (Fonatur) and a single one is private, that is the Harbour Administración Integral Acapulco (API Acapulco), joint venture between mexican group TMM and the SSA México of the group Carrix American.
Such proposal is thrown again in the course of the eighteenth assembly anniversary of the mexican association of shipping agents (AMANAC), held in recent days to Mérida, in the Yucatán, from the former general manager of the Ports and of the Merchant navy of the ministry of the Communications and the Transports, Ángel González Rul, that it has emphasized as such privatization is necessary to the aim to promote the participation of the private initiative in the realization and management of the harbour services and in order to reach an autonomy managerial financial institution and of these agencies necessary in order to plan the investments and to strengthen their ties with the development of the ports and the regions that they accommodate them. Of the same Javier Altamirano warning, president of the Asociación Nacional of the Transporte Privado (ANTP), the association of the users of the transport goods, second which the moment has reached to transfer the guide of the ports to the private sector.
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