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Brazil’s Port of Santos will remain state-owned, says future Minister

The future Minister of Ports and Airports, Márcio França (PSB), ruled out privatizing the port of Santos, the largest in the country. "It will remain state-owned," he guaranteed, during a press conference on Thursday 22, after being confirmed in the portfolio.

"What we are doing is granting areas within the port."

França said that Lula da Silva's government should not reverse concessions made in the previous administration but that it will analyze processes that have not been homologated:

"They will go through the sieve of the new government with the technicians who have our vision . . .

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