The Merchant Marine and Ports National Council (CNMMP), as the top national organism of naval and ports policy, and as the highest advisor organism of the National Government for such matters, considering the provisions of article 13 of Decision 314 of the Andean Community, published in the Official Diary number 897, on March 19, 1992, through Decision 012/93, dated March 24, 1993, approved the “Action Plan for the Modernization of the National Ports System”, in which was determined the necessity to modernize the National Ports System, in order to turn it more efficient and offer adequate competitive conditions, position that became its point of start for the initiation of the concession process of the public commercial ports of the country, among which is, the Port Authority of Guayaquil.

From the different port models, our country adopted the international model known as “Landlord Port”. This is concluded from the Decision number 021/95, adopted by the Merchant Marine and Ports National Council on August 14, 1995, through which such organism approved the “Ecuadorian Ports Model and the Works Schedule for the Action Plan for the Modernization of Ecuadorian Ports”.

Therefore, and according the constitutional, legal and statutory provisions that support the delegation of port services to the private sector, the modernization actions introduced by the Port Authority of Guayaquil, has allowed the private sector to render port services through the modalities of AUTHORIZATION, PERMIT and CONCESSION.

As provided by the superior organisms of the National port System and the public policy to concession the Maritime Port of Guayaquil, APG since 1999, delivered in concession its bulk cargo terminal to the company Andipuerto Guayaquil S.A., and currently, it is on its third phase of the model initially approved by the Merchant Marine and Ports National Council, executing the concession process of its Containers and Multi-purpose Terminals. For such purpose, it has elaborated and approved studies regarding the technical feasibility, financial-economical and environmental impact, as well as the strategy to award the TCM of the maritime port to one sole concessionaire, with which the port model introduced by the Port Authority of Guayaquil, has been developed through delegation agreements executed with the private sector for the provision of public port services.