The Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Industrial, Industrial and Monetary Associations (Cacif) reacted this Thursday to the uncertainty that has been generated by the nullity of the APM Terminals Quetzal contract in Escuintla and the Empresa Portuaria Quetzal (EPQ).
The assertion states that if this example is just not resolved, there can be severe penalties equivalent to: scarcity of medicines, enhance within the primary basket, sanctions for breaches of contracts, lack of uncooked supplies for various companies and lack of competitiveness, which might decelerate financial development and funding alternatives.
“It’s pressing that authorities use authorized instruments to make sure that ports operate optimally and with out interruption. That’s the reason we current an injunction, with the intention of in search of an answer,” the assertion states.
The Cacif message concludes that “it’s needed to emphasise the significance of each EPQ and APM Terminals doing their greatest to resolve the present disaster in each ports. Likewise, it needs to be a precedence for the authorities to handle the nation’s infrastructure, equivalent to ports, airports and roads which are in important situation.”
Throughout a press convention referred to as at present, President Bernardo Arévalo assured that “necessary choices” will probably be made within the coming days, referring to the APM Terminals case, particularly as a result of an injunction filed by the personal sector earlier than the Constitutional Courtroom.
In the meantime, the Minister of Communications, Infrastructure and Housing, (CIV) Félix Alvarado, commented that they’re analyzing the completely different actions within the sense “of whether or not this helps or hinders the answer of the issues which are being confronted within the providers and wishes of individuals”.
He clarified, “that the oversights of a number of many years are being noticed, however as for the comfort of constructing the grievance, it’s one thing that’s nonetheless being evaluated.”
On Monday evening, the Fifth Chamber of the Contentious and Administrative Courtroom notified absolutely the nullity of the onerous usufruct contracts, their modification and the operations contract signed with APM Terminals Quetzal SA, for which a local weather of uncertainty within the actors of the logistics chain, because of the attainable paralysis of international commerce in these terminals within the Guatemalan Pacific.
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