Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Creamy Discharge Five Days Before Period

airport services, the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics



The major world sporting events motivate discussions on various topics but especially on airport services.

Both allies of President Lula, as the opposition are convinced that urgent and necessary is a new model for raising the quality standard of these services and, more importantly, how that improvement will be financed.

There are proposals for all ideological hues. Even among allies of the president is an ongoing process of building consensus, seeking a definition that can not pass this year. Although her results are operationalized only in 2011.

We have three main lines of intervention proposals this question:

• The model continues as is, with Infraero acting as airport authority and as manager of the 67 airports, 80 units of support to the air terminal and 33 logistics load. In this model the financing are made through budgetary resources and the main source of revenue are fees charged to airport users

• IPO Infraero, which would become a sort of Petrobras, and assumption that the private contribution resources in the state's shareholding structure will ensure the necessary investments to maintain, expand capacity, increase service quality, as well as building new airports, supporting units to shipping and cargo logistics terminals.

• The Ministry of Defense and the FAA conduct bidding for operation of some or all airports by the private sector. It becomes more than the airport authority operator and builder, by moving these tasks to companies via contracts of 25 years, which will ensure quality standards, rates and all the necessary investment.

The big question being discussed is how to finance the improvements, capacity expansions (cargo, passengers and aircraft) and maintaining quality in the coming years.

seems to us that the concession model is for the private operation that offers the best benefit for users, and especially to the taxpayers. In this model, we propose as the best alternative, who is financing the necessary investments (in time and not late) is the user's airport system: passengers, producers, shippers, exporters and importers.

This model is not incumbent on the taxpayer and the resources from it can be applied to social programs or other investments that benefit everyone and not just a small portion of the population.

There are several possibilities for modeling but we think it would be interesting to further discuss a model with the following assumptions:

concessions could be auctioned for operation by the initiative in ten private lots, with six to seven airports in each. Each of these lots would have a major airport and five or six small and medium passenger and cargo traffic.

The distribution would be for various regions, without geographic concentration. For example: Galeao Airport, Vitoria, Salvador, João Pessoa, Macapá and Belém. Therefore, all lots would be attractive generation of revenues would fund the largest drive-peak.

The winning bidder would be the largest value that offers grants - which would for Infraero - the highest award procedures or best technique combined with grants, pondering whether these two aspects of each bidder.

Companies bidders could submit for the competition individually or in joint venture foreign company may participate as long as guaranteeing the control of the consortium by a Brazilian company, considering the strategic aspects of national security and that is characteristic of commercial and military aviation.

Finally, I think it would be important to ensure that only qualified for the bidding firms with extensive experience logistics and passenger loads.

There are other aspects that could be discussed but I think that was pointed out here is the basis for a broader discussion of the new financing model for Brazilian airport system.

José Augusto Valente is Technical Director T1

(This article was originally published in Blog Zé Dirceu )

Monday, October 4, 2010

1979 Holiday Rambler V

The pamphlet from The Globe pro-Sierra (3/10/10)


The main raw Globe yesterday (3 / 10) is a pamphlet pro-Sierra, which shows to what extent was the Brazilian press in supporting the candidacy of the opposition candidate to Lula, Dilma.

Three fallacies that try to substantiate the idea that there is approval of the Lula government is just marketing electoral


1. The Lula government was wrong in education

The Constitution assigns to state and municipal primary education, which is criticized in the matter, allowing the Union to transfer of resources, technical schools and universities. In its constitutional powers, the federal government "gave a bath" and instead referred the matter of (not discussed education) in his television Dilma these achievements had been exhausted. If there are problems (and is) in elementary schools is the responsibility of local governments and state governments and not the Union Unless we solve the Globe lead a movement to change the constitution and pass the elementary school for the Union


2. The Lula government was badly in sanitation

The Constitution assigns to municipalities and states the responsibility for water, sewer, trash and macro-management of water resources. In the Union shall provide resources, via Federal Savings Bank to finance the projects of municipalities and state governments. Also at that point the federal government "gave a bath" in relation to the government of Fernando Henrique, for example, as it can. The Federal Government can not replace the local governments and state governments in developing these projects. But he made a great effort to force the local governments to make good projects, via box. Again, it seems that The Globe will want to lead a movement to change the constitution and pass those powers to the Union While this does not occur is lightly assign responsibility to the federal government. Incidentally, something that The Globe has not done during the eight years of Cardoso.


3. The Lula government was wrong in transport infrastructure

I have written numerous articles with data showing that this is a fallacy and that can not hold for a basic argument: the economy could not grow as much as grown , cargo handling in ports could not break records upon records to be full of logistical infrastructure bottlenecks, as they say repeatedly and falsely. One thing to say that any logistics infrastructure that is always better to withstand high growth rates. Another thing is to lie by saying that the roads are rubbish, that the ports are precarious, that the railroads are a delay and that the airports are on the verge of a blackout.

Note that eight years ago are on the verge of a blackout. That, of course, never arrives for the simple reason that we are not on the verge of a blackout thing no. Even in relation to the road as mentioned research of CNT, already exhausted the subject by showing that it shows a positive and fully consistent with the high rates of economic growth in Brazil.

José Augusto Valente is Technical Director T1