The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has announced the approval of an amendment to the Infrastructure decree law, which took place during the examination in the joint Environment and Chamber of Deputies, which allows you to immediately transform the Agencies for the administration of work in the port and for the professional retraining in ports in Agencies authorized to provision of temporary port work.

The ministry highlighted that, in this way, these Agencies, created in 2016 to support employment in times of crisis or cessation of terminal activities in the maritime transport, will now have a new role and that this measure is crucial for the protection of workers and to ensure the operational continuity of port infrastructures. In addition MIT underlined, this transformation will allow the stable re-employment of redundant workers, thus accompanying the processes of industrial conversion of infrastructures Port. The primary objective - concludes the ministry's note - is safeguarding the operation and efficiency of ports, with a particular focus on container handling and cargo transshipment activities, known as transhipment.