The Port Today

The Port of Veracruz lived the requisition of its premises on June 1st, 1991 through which the Federal Government took its administration and control for the adequate management of merchandises.

On August 1st of the same year the first private maneuver companies initiated the port activity, generating the benefit of competence and development of services.

Finally on July 19th, 1993, the Mexican Parliament of the Federal Government decreed through the Official Federal Journal the Port Law whose object is to regulate the ports, terminals, navies and port facilities, its construction, use, exploitation, operation and administration forms, as well as the port services.

On the margin of the publication of the Port Law, was created the figure of the Integral Port Administrations and on February 1st, 1994 the Integral Port Administration of Veracruz began operations on a renewed and current manner.

Characteristics of the APIVER 

APIVER was constituted in accordance with the Port Law as a Limited Liability Company, which grants a concession for a period of 50 years, extendable to other 50 years, the public domain assets of the federation, that conforms the port precinct of Veracruz or are built on it.

On this manner it acquires rights and duties, some of them are the following:

Administrate the port precinct and operate the terminals, premises and port services through third parties by means of partial cession of rights contracts, through public concourses and contracts based on the established on the concession title, Master Development Program and other regulations.

Organizational Model

• Commercial Association
• Payment of considerations and taxes to the Federal Government
• Operation with profits
• Autonomy of Operational Gestation
• Generation of new infrastructure works with own resources attending the demand of services
• Financial autonomy
• Competence and synergy between ports