The Uruguayan economist, Eduardo Ache, will be the new president of the Dispute Analysis Panel (PAD) that will settle eventual disputes that may arise between the National Ports Administration (ANP) and Terminal Cuenca del Plata (TCP), in which Katoen Natie is a majority shareholder and ANP is a minority shareholder.
In the concession contract that gave Katoen Natie the management of the port until 2081, the PAD is a requirement and its function is to follow up on the parties complying with the signed contract. The body will always be made up of three members: the president, one appointed by the ANP and the other by the TCP. In this case, Ache was appointed as president by agreement between the Government and the TCP consortium.
“If neither party has notified the other party and the PAD in writing of their disagreement with a recommendation within a period of 10 business days from the business day following its receipt, the recommendation shall be final and binding on the parties. parts. The parties must comply without delay with any recommendation that has become final and binding”, reads one of the annexes to the contract.
An almost entirely political curriculum
Until this week, Ache was a member of the Executive Committee of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF), he will leave his position once the current government ends and, for the first time in 25 years, he will not be part of any board of directors in the National Football Club.
Eduardo Ache, 67 years old, was a Senator of the Republic for the Colorado Party, between 1990 and 1995, and as a legislator he did not present a single project, according to the website of the Parliament. He also did not issue requests for reports and there is no information about his attendance.
also president of ANCAP during the presidency of Julio María Sanguinetti. He was also Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining during the government of Luis Alberto Lacalle (1992 to 1994) and candidate for the vice presidency of the Republic, accompanying the candidate Jorge Pacheco-Areco.
Since 2020, he has been an advisor to Guido Manini Ríos on economic matters. He is the uncle of the former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolina Ache, who resigned from her position in the midst of the scandal over the granting of a passport to drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, case you can read here.
