Africa-Press – Cape verde. The administration of Naviera Armas accuses the national director of Sea Policy, Giliardo Nascimento of benefiting CV Interilhas, guaranteeing his ship Chiquinho BL 70 percent (%) of the traffic on the São Vicente-Santo Antão route .
This accusation by Naviera Armas, owner of the ship Mar d’Canal, comes after the National Directorate for Maritime Policy has set a new timetable for the ships Nôs Ferry Mar d’Canal and Chiquinho BL, on the São Vicente – Santo Antão maritime line with a interval of 01h15 minutes between trips.
According to Naviera Armas, quoted by Inforpress, with the suspension of the alternation of schedules, the vessel Chiquinho is immediately guaranteed 40% of the traffic and the remaining 60% is freely shared in an environment of competition between the two ships.
70% of traffic to Chiquinho
With that, in practice, they guaranteed Chiquinho around 70% of traffic and Mar d’Canal around 30%.
Naviera Armas justifies that postponing the departure of its ship and keeping the departure of the vessel Chiquinho BL unchanged is “clearly harming” the Mar d’Canal and benefiting the foreign vessel chartered to CV Interilhas.
“If the national director of Maritime Policy, Giliardo Nascimento, had given Naviera Armas Cabo Verde the opportunity to sit at the table, in search of the necessary consensus, for the best solutions to the problems that have been happening in the two ports, we would have easily demonstrated that these are exclusively due to the captains of CV Interilhas ships failing to comply with the departure times on other routes”, he argued, accusing Giliardo Nascimento of dictating and imposing decisions that harm Naviera Armas.
disobedience
This fact, he justified, is due to “the captains’ non-compliance with the orders issued by Enapor” and that “all authorities are witnesses of what has happened in Porto Grande”.
The company recalls that the Nos Ferry Mar d’Canal, “is clearly in the public interest, knowing that it is a nationally owned ship, owned by a 100% national shipowner, which pays taxes, does not receive any type of subsidy from the State and does not deserve to be sacrificed in this way.”
As added by Naviera Armas in the statement, in addition to “seeing the request for alternation denied, the departure times were penalized by 15 minutes”, so the ship’s management considered that “the National Directorate of Maritime Policy made a mistake based on wrong assumptions and that it will review its position”.
Common sense
Therefore, they appeal to the “common sense of reviewing the order and returning to the timetable with departures at 08:00, 10:00, 15:00 and 17:00, as has been practiced for more than 10 years”.
“In the presentation of new, more solid and well-founded reasons, regarding the need to increase the distance between 01H15 trips, it is better to advance the departure of the first ship to 15 minutes earlier, without prejudice to both parties”.
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