ANTAQ Seminar Details Functionalities of Waterway Panels

Published on 11/03/2026 4:06 PM

Brasília, 01/30/2026 - The National Waterway Transportation Agency (ANTAQ) held a presentation today (30) to deepen the use of data that strengthens regulation and decision-making in the sector. This was the Waterway Information Seminar, which took place in the Agency's plenary in Brasília (DF), and was also broadcast on ANTAQ's YouTube channel.

The opening was made by the creator of the Seminar, the Superintendent of Waterway Studies and Projects, Eduardo Queiroz. Afterwards, Cristina Castro, Superintendent of ESG and Innovation, highlighted the importance of the panels for the Brazilian economic movement: "If we don't understand our data, or how it is presented, we won't be able to tell stories. And the panels bring information according to the country's historical moment: looking at goods, for example, we can see what has grown. And the market follows, in the panels, even the specificities of this movement."

Fernando Serra, Manager of Statistics and Performance Evaluation, was the one who, 11 years ago, brought the idea of the panels to optimize processes at the Agency. At the Seminar, Serra highlighted the relevance of this system: "Today, 60 countries follow our data. The panels have significant global reach." He concluded by showing a constant concern with the technological modernization of the panels: "It is important that the system is in constant evolution. We want to institute the use of artificial intelligence in the panels."

Also participating in the Seminar was the Superintendent of Grants, Renildo Barros, who highlighted market autonomy: "With the panels, the market is autonomous, as the entire ecosystem of the Agency is presented in them." Aníbal Almeida, head of the Panels and Publications Division, demonstrated the system's functionalities in practice.

The Waterway Information Seminar was recorded and is available on the ANTAQ channel on YouTube.

It is the repository of operational information for the sector. With the Waterway Statistician, one can understand the national dynamics of the area, whether in navigations or in terminals regulated by the Agency. Through the Statistician, ANTAQ operates with excellence in its inspection function, in addition to instrumentalizing its actions with greater precision: "It is a work tool that minimizes training asymmetries and generates knowledge about the sector and also acts as a beacon for the development of public policies in the waterway sector," said Queiroz.

This panel has a dual function: it serves to facilitate access for civil servants to aggregated information on Brazilian navigation companies and their respective fleets, in addition to allowing users and operators to understand the dynamics of commercial navigations regulated by the Agency. Through this tool, it is possible to extract patterns, understand the dynamics of these companies and navigations - including navigations focused on passenger transport. With this panel, interested parties obtain information on all available routes, operators, and vessels - which becomes a great tool for users, especially passengers, who will have knowledge about existing routes, vessels, and their respective days and times. Navigation companies, in turn, can monitor market movements, seeking subsidies to better compete and provide better services.

These are two panels that seek to provide a set of information about private terminals regulated by ANTAQ. In addition to being an instrument of active transparency for requests for new private terminals and registrations of port facilities, these tools contain the main characteristics of the terminals, such as the authorized cargo profile and the projected investment. "Both the Navigation Grants panel and the Port Facilities panel are instruments that help internal and external users to better understand the national waterway sector. The two private facilities panels are also aimed at monitoring the procedural progress of requests under analysis or already finalized by the Agency. They also provide a set of information about these facilities, which facilitates the analysis of the MPor and attracts the attention of potential interested parties in the facilities," concluded the Superintendent.