A política pública e os portos brasileiros: casos de estudo: terminais privados de contêineres do Porto de Santos

Abstract

This study intends to analyze the influence of the Brazilian public port policy, applied between 1993 and 2012, in the Port of Santos’ private containers terminals in the perception of the employers and trade union representatives. The research can be classified as applied, in terms of qualitative nature in approach to the problem, and in relation to the methodological techniques, the research uses prevalently the techniques of bibliographic, documentary and survey researches.In the field research, used to verify the evolutionary process of containers’ private terminals in labor relations and in productivity, handling of containers, was used the instrument of semi-structured interviews, conducted with trade union leaders, both, workers' and employers' representatives, and executive officers of private port terminals of the mentioned port. The analysis of the objective of the research was made from the literature, mainly involving the public policy issues, ports, labor relations and productivity, and the perception of private actors related to the Port of Santos. In relation to the results, there is a divergence of perceptions among the actors involved. In the perception of the representatives of employees, the existing policy caused a reduction of jobs and reduction in the average income. However, from the employers' perspective, the policy is perceived as positive once that, among many benefits, it brought the management of labor force for inside of the terminals, and consolidated the significant increase of productivity in the containers handling, which achieves productivity indexes close to those of foreign ports.