El procedimiento administrativo especial colombiano de solicitud de concesiones portuarias marítimas en ejercicio del derecho de petición en interés particular

Abstract

In Colombia, the construction, operation and management of ports, the state requires the granting of a port concession to port companies, which is given prior exhaustion of an administrative special private initiative, through the exercise of the right of petition by a particular, or through a bid led by the State. The procedures are set out under Law 1st of January 10, 1991 and Decree 4735 of December 2, 2009. The legal system but provides mechanisms for the appearance of third parties in the process, it does not contemplate the way two port concession requests should be processed if one of them is located outside the period provided for in article 10 of Law 1 of 1991.