Project record

Paranaguá access channel dredging concession

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Not assessed
Project facts checked

Concession assumed on 31 July 2026; revised tariffs effective 4 October; 13.3-metre operating draft

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Paranaguá Port Channel Company assumed the access-channel concession on 31 July 2026, according to Portos do Paraná and PPCC's formal tariff notice. Its first revised access tariffs took effect on 4 October. The operator publishes a 13.3-metre current operating draft, a 15.5-metre Phase 2 target and September survey listings alongside its long-term dredging, hydrography, navigation-aid and traffic-management duties.

Official nautical chart of the Paranaguá access-channel concession boundary, inner and offshore channel alignments, anchorages, and designated disposal area

ANTAQ / Infra S.A.

Location

Brazil / Americas

Segment

Dredging

Phase

Delivery / Confirmed

Last checked

21 October 2026

Coverage

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Dredging is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.

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Project anatomy

Contract scope and delivery roles

Client / authority
Brazilian Federal Government and National Waterway Transportation Agency (ANTAQ), with Portos do Paraná at the operating interface
Delivery parties
Consórcio Canal Galheta Dragagem (CCGD), FTS Participações Societárias S.A., DEME Concessions NV, DEME Dredging NV
Contract route
ANTAQ Auction No. 05/2025 used a hybrid tariff-discount and grant-fee competition. CCGD won after 20 live bids with a 12.63% tariff discount and R$276 million grant fee; the 25-year concession was homologated in December 2025 and signed in March 2026.
Execution window
The contract was signed on 12 March 2026 and the concession took effect on 31 July. PPCC's 4 September notice records that assumption date and sets 4 October 2026 for the first contractual tariff adjustment. ANTAQ's project page places VTS and hydrographic-survey implementation within the first two contract years, capital, adjustment, and deepening dredging, Anchorage 6 works to -14.5 metres DHN, rock removal, and navigation-aid works in years three to five, and recurring service from year six. PPCC's current portal places VTS/VTMIS operation in year five; the difference between the two public schedules requires reconciliation against the signed contract and approved PEAA.
Works package
Administer and operate the organised port's wet-access system, including channels, turning basins, anchorages, berths, navigation aids, vessel-traffic services, hydrographic surveys, periodic maintenance dredging, berth-operability dredging, deepening and adjustment dredging, rock removal, nautical-document updates, and associated environmental and disposal controls across the Paranaguá access system.
Marine interfaces
The concession boundary extends from the organised port and inner channels through the Galheta access alignment to the offshore approach and disposal area. Performance depends on coordinated dredger, rock-removal, and survey mobilisation; channel and berth availability; sediment placement; navigation-aid uptime; VTS operation; hydrographic acceptance; traffic windows; and continuity with Portos do Paraná's pre-concession maintenance works.
Commercial evidence boundary
ANTAQ records R$1.226 billion of CAPEX and a contract value of about R$9.97 billion. The award requires R$1.22 billion in the first five years while the concessionaire collects the dedicated access-infrastructure tariff. PPCC's revised INFRAMAR schedule applies from 4 October 2026, and its current portal lists R$1.12 per cubic metre for use of the oceanic disposal polygon. Long-term cost and revenue depend on depth, service availability, surveys, disposal, navigation systems and the applicable tariff rules.

Project timeline

Material developments

Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.

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PPCC's first revised access tariffs took effect

The operator's 4 September notice sets 4 October for the first contractual INFRAMAR adjustment. Access-cost checks now use that schedule; the current portal retains a 13.3-metre operating draft and a separate 15.5-metre Phase 2 target.

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PPCC assumed the access-channel concession

Portos do Paraná confirms the effective concession date and directs Table I payments to PPCC for ships berthed from that date. PPCC's formal September notice records the same assumption date, replacing the earlier expected 1 August transition.

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The concessionaire portal exposes the operating baseline and unresolved VTS schedule

PPCC publishes a 13.3-metre current operating draft, 15.5-metre target, March 2026 bathymetry, and VTS under implementation. Its year-five VTS label differs from ANTAQ's first-two-year summary, so neither summary page should be promoted into an accepted contract milestone.

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The port tariff notice set a planned 1 August handover

Portos do Paraná says Table I will move to PPCC and gives 1 August 2026 as the expected concession start. This is a transition notice, not evidence that handover, tariff collection, or service acceptance has occurred.

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A separate public maintenance campaign preceded the concession transfer

Portos do Paraná placed Van Oord's Vox Amalia on the 2026 campaign and targeted end-June completion. The campaign belongs to the pre-handover maintenance regime and does not name the concession fleet or prove completion.

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The 25-year concession contract was signed

DEME confirms the signed contract and PPCC operating vehicle. Signature moved the project into mobilisation and transition, but it did not deliver the future 15.5-metre target or establish physical works acceptance.

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The ministry homologated the auction result

Homologation confirmed CCGD as the selected consortium and closed the auction stage while leaving contract signature, transfer, mobilisation, dredging, and service performance for later evidence.

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CCGD won Brazil's first port-access-channel auction

Twenty live bids produced a 12.63% tariff discount and R$276 million grant fee, with R$1.22 billion of first-five-year investment. The auction created a long-term delivery obligation rather than a completed deepening result.

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Evidence gap

What remains unverified

Outstanding evidence

  • Application of the 4 October access tariffs and current disposal charges
  • September survey sheets, accepted hydrography, environmental controls, and disposal route
  • First concession dredging campaign, plant identity, and accepted output
  • Contract-year phasing for VTS, surveys, deepening, rock removal, and the 15.5-metre draft objective
  • Navigation-aid, VTS, berth-access, and nautical-document performance
  • Resolution of the public first-two-year versus year-five VTS schedule
  • Separation of pre-handover maintenance, the 2027-2028 Antonina transition, and concession delivery

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Reporting status

Project phase
Delivery
Evidence confidence
Confirmed
Last checked
21 October 2026
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