This Wednesday, February 9, the senators of the Broad Front, Charles Carrera and Mario Bergara, presented to the Economic Crimes Prosecutor an extension of the September 2021 complaint, for the agreement between the government and the Belgian shipping company Katoen Natie, which they describe as illegal.
From the Katoen Natie company, it is assured that Montecon “illegitimately used public spaces, received tariff subsidies, and carried out discriminatory practices against its competitors, to the detriment of TCP and the public coffers.”
Terminal Cuenca del Plata SA (TCP), made up of 80% by Katoen Natie and 20% by the National Ports Administration, stated that the senators “repeat almost verbatim the arguments put forward by the company Montecon SA in its nullity action against Decrees 114/021 and 115/021 of the 1st. last December.”
Senators Carrera and Bergara affirmed that TCP “accredited” in its 2001 business plan that “the regime of free competition” was in force in the Port of Montevideo and, furthermore, “it undertook to respect it.”
Denial
TCP denies such claims and states that the “Market Study and Traffic Projection” prepared in March 2001 by the CPA consulting firm “was carried out before the enactment of the TCP regulation decree”, and that there is no “accreditation” in it. or any “commitment”, but rather an evaluation of the future activity of the specialized terminal “which did not yet exist”.
