Puertos del Estado distributes second batch of masks to maritime sector

The shipment of 840,000 units completes the allocation of 1.1 million decreed in Order TMA / 263/2020, of March 20, of MITMA. Port authorities, SASEMAR and the DGMM, in addition to essential port services, will receive the masks in the coming days - April 13, 2020 Puertos del Estado today began the distribution of the second batch of masks to the maritime sector, thus fulfilling the mandate of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda to contribute to the safety of workers and ensure the continuity of essential services and logistics and distribution chains. The President of Puertos del Estado, Francisco Toledo, highlights the "high complexity" of the purchase of this sanitary material in an overwhelmed international market, "which has been made possible by the delivery and commitment of the staff of this House to actively contribute to the fight against COVID-19". The distribution started today of 840,000 units will be in the hands of the maritime sector in the coming days. "With this second batch of 840,000 masks we completed the quota of 1.1 million units that the ministerial order granted us," he affirms, "which supposes a support for the effort of all the men and women of the maritime sector who make it possible every day. that goods flow through ports to supermarkets across the country, and that raw materials enable the work of our companies and the export of their products." Order TMA / 263/2020, of March 20, which regulates the acquisition and distribution of masks by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, establishes the purchase of eight million masks for personnel related to the transport sector can continue to carry out its functions with due protection of health. In this sense, it establishes a distribution by quotas that assigns "1,128,000 to the public entity State Ports and Port Authorities for distribution in the maritime sector", including the public business entity Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima (SASEMAR) and the General Directorate of the Merchant Marine (DGMM). As was done in the previous distribution, the distribution of the masks will extend to those essential services that guarantee the operation of the ports of general interest such as stowage, pilotage, etc. Puertos del Estado is a state-owned organisation responsible for the management of state-owned ports. The company executes the port policy of the government and coordinates and controls the efficiency of the port system, made up of 28 port authorities that manage the 46 ports of general interest. Source: Puertos del Estado

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