Waterway Panorama - Antaq

Port environmental planning
The Development and Zoning Plan – PDZ is
the instrument of organization and growth
of port activities. It is a planning tool of the
activities, in which the current and future cargoes
are arranged in order to achieve better efficiency
while transported. However, this instrument
has still not achieved it due to the lack of
proper tools for this purpose.
Port activities are primarily carried out within
areas defined by presidential decree. There is
no restriction for that area (polygon) to be
amended whenever the relevant authority requires
it. However, there is not much flexibility in
this process, as its expansion is subject to its surroundings.
Many urban ports are limited in
space by the cities where they are located, leaving
them solely with the area now available.
Within the polygon, there is a set of natural resources
that are exclusively available to the port
authority. And these natural resources should be
used so as to obtain the best possible environmental
quality and mitigate impacts as much as
possible, compensating what is necessary for
environmental damages.
The purpose of this planning instrument, from
the environmental standpoint, for the decision to
ANTAQ should incorporate environmental studies
that subsidize strategies for deciding the form
and amount of use of natural resources, as well
as actions to improve the quality of the environment
in its current status.
These studies include: the study of port activity
and its relation to the surroundings of the organized
port with respect to ecosocial-economic
aspects; assessment of the quality of natural resources
within the polygon, and characterization
of the main elements of fauna and flora within
the port polygon with the identification of possible
situations of protection.
Besides strategically providing the organiza-
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