The General Port Administration (AGP) established a new tariff table for services in the Port of Buenos Aires through the resolution 98/2019.
The measure, published this Wednesday (31.07.2019) in the Official Gazette, modifies the application rules, values and tariff structure that were approved in 2017 for port services and use of docks for coastal vessels, vessel certificates, vessels being scrapped, inactive vessels and cargo services.
The regulations include a surcharge for those coastal or overseas vessels and naval artifacts entering the Port of Buenos Aires, with the aim of “discouraging the permanence of inactive vessels.”
The measure will group into a single rate to those ships and naval artifacts of coastal or overseas shipping entering the Port of Buenos Aires that are in a situation of dismantling, scrapping, construction or major repair, with a surcharge similar to that applied to inactivity.
The text says that a surcharge will be set for the prolonged stay of any coastal or overseas vessel and naval craft that does not carry out operations in the facilities of the Port of Buenos Aires, in order to “limit” such stays.
New tariff table
Port use services for coastal vessels without frequent use certificate: US$ 0,075 per net registered ton (NRT) for each entry, and a minimum to be settled of US$ 33. For the use of the dock, US$ 0,0250 NRT per day and a minimum to be settled of US$ 11 per day.
Quarterly certificate, in the case of coastal vessels with a certificate of frequent use: US$ 1,19 per ton for general vessels; US$ 3.500 for passenger vessels and US$ 700 for tugboats.
Cargo service: US$ 0,775 per ton in bulk and US$ 0,3125 per unit of weight in bulk. Fuels, non-vegetable oils, alcohols and chemical products will pay US$ 0,260 per ton; and sand, earth, pebbles and stone, US$ 0,1375.
Inactivity, dismantling, scrapping, construction or repair higher: minimum of US$ 800 per month.
Long-term stay: surcharge on the basic dock use rate of 10% from 16 to 30 days; 20% from 31 to 45 days; 30% from 46 to 60 days; 40% from 61 to 75 days; 50% from 76 to 90 days; 60% from 91 to 105 days; 70% from 106 to 120 days; 80% from 121 to 135 days; 90% from 136 to 150 days and 100% from 151 days onwards.
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