It also abolishes the Undersecretariat of Ports and Waterways and the General Administration of Ports (AGP).

 

By means of Decree 3/2025, published on January 6 in the Official Gazette, the President of the Nation, Javier Milei, ordered the creation of the National Agency of Ports and Navigation (ANPYN) and abolished the Undersecretariat of Ports and Waterways and established the dissolution and subsequent liquidation of the General Administration of Ports (AGP). The new entity will seek to promote the development of port infrastructure and optimize Argentina’s fluvial and maritime trade.

 

The decree emphasizes that ANPYN will have as its main functions the planning, regulation and control of activities related to ports and navigation. The measure comes in a context of growing demand to improve the efficiency of water transport, reduce logistics costs and increase the competitiveness of Argentine products in international markets.

 

ANPYN is created as an autarkic entity within the Ministry of Economy, maintaining the responsibilities, competences and functions assigned to the Undersecretariat of Ports and Waterways and to the AGP, assuming the role of Concessionaire of the Trunk Waterway until the public bidding process entrusted by Decree No. 709/24 is awarded.

 

The new entity will be headed by Iñaki Miguel Arreseygor, who had been acting as Undersecretary of Ports and Waterways.

 

In justifying the creation of the new entity, the Decree states that “The purpose of this measure is to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and avoid the overlapping of functions, through the suppression and replacement of the agencies by a new entity with unity of action and a reduced structure, making rational use of the available resources specialized and trained in their respective functions, and ensuring the continuity and regularity of the services”.

 

Functions and attributions of ANPYN

 

  • To advise the National Executive Power in the qualification of ports.
  • To control, within the scope of port activity, the compliance with the provisions of this law and the regulations issued as a consequence thereof within the national jurisdiction.
  • To control that the holders of the granted port authorizations comply with the constructive and operative projects that justified their request, and that they give the ports and port facilities the purpose that conditioned the authorization.
  • It may suspend such authorizations until the required conditions are reestablished or cancel them definitively.
  • Promote and make effective the modernization, efficiency and economy of each of the ports of the National State.
  • To stimulate and facilitate private investment in the exploitation and administration of ports.
  • To give technical and legal advice to the provinces and/or municipalities that promote port facilities in their respective territories.
  • To establish general policies on port matters and on the administration and exploitation of navigable waterways.
  • To establish agreements delimiting the responsibilities in the dredging of accesses and docks of each port.
  • To control, subsidiarily, in the port area, compliance with any law or regulation whose application is the responsibility of a national authority,
  • To coordinate the action of the different supervisory and control agencies of the National State acting within the port area, in order to avoid the overlapping of functions, and to facilitate the efficient operation of the port itself and of the services provided therein.
  • To exercise primary responsibility in environmental matters and to establish the procedures for the evaluation and issuance of the corresponding statements of suitability for works and activities in ports and waterways.
  • To apply the corresponding sanctions for the commission of the infractions foreseen in section 23, subsection a) of the present law.
  • To set the term of amortization of investments for the purposes of the provisions of Section 16 of the law, in the case of ports owned by the National State.
  • To establish the alternative procedure to enter into agreements with human or legal persons for the purposes of the provisions of Section 14 of the law.
  • To exercise control over the concessions, operators and activities of the Port of Buenos Aires and the police and taxation power over the establishment and the movable and immovable assets that comprise it.
  • To delimit the national port jurisdiction and dispose of the state-owned assets that comprise it.
  • To regulate and control the Concessions of works and services on the Interjurisdictional Waterways of the country.
  • Promote public-private partnership and private investment in cargo transfer centers, ferro port facilities and infrastructure and logistics services.
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