ANTAQ digitises oversight of port-investment commitments in Brazil

Brazil’s National Waterway Transportation Agency (ANTAQ) has presented its new Sistema de Acompanhamento de Investimentos (SAI), a digital platform for monitoring investments committed under port-lease contracts and private-terminal adhesion contracts. The Agency disclosed the system on 18 September, following a 17 September workshop in Brasília for regulated companies and other stakeholders.

**Verified facts:** SAI replaces the previous process in which regulated companies submitted the Relatório de Acompanhamento de Projeto de Investimento Realizado (RAPIR) manually in PDF form. ANTAQ says the first release provides a standardised digital workflow for registering, submitting, analysing and approving investment-monitoring information in one environment. It covers both physical and financial project data, automated email notifications, system validations and an audit trail recording the user, date and values associated with amendments.

The workflow assigns roles to regulated companies, port authorities, inspectors and grant-management personnel. Depending on the stage, users may analyse, approve or return a submission for correction, with reasons recorded and notifications sent automatically. For adhesion contracts, the submission route runs directly from the regulated entity to ANTAQ’s inspection function. Access is through the federal gov.br identity system. ANTAQ describes the RAPIR workflow as the first delivery and says later work is expected to include refinement, deadline controls and more detailed controls.

The Agency had announced in August that SAI would become its official tool for monitoring and inspecting investments under these contracts. That earlier notice also required each regulated company to nominate representatives for system access, indicating that the tool is designed as a reporting and supervisory channel rather than a public port-performance dashboard.

**Analysis — why this matters:** For terminal operators, lessors and investors, a structured record of milestones, expenditure and amendments should reduce ambiguity over what has been filed, queried and accepted by the regulator. It may also make missing evidence, delayed updates and divergence between physical progress and financial reporting easier for ANTAQ to identify. This is relevant to vessel operators, cargo interests and insurers because delivery of berth, yard, handling and access-capacity projects can affect future service capability and exposure to delay, even though SAI itself does not alter berth allocation, navigation conditions or terminal operating rules.

Companies should review internal ownership of regulatory submissions, the authority granted to nominated users, document retention and the consistency of project schedules, invoices and progress evidence before submitting through the new workflow. The present announcement does not establish that every reported investment has been completed, approved or made publicly visible; it establishes a new method for ANTAQ’s supervision of contractual investment reporting.