The bank president Luciano Coutinho said that the financial institution was looking at providing more funding as its participation in infrastructure is small.
Financing terms involve 20-year loans with three-year grace periods and interest rate 3% above the long-term interest rate TJLP, the bank said.
In 2012, the federal government announced some BRL54.6bn ($24.6bn) in port concession projects as part of the country's overall transportation and logistics plan budgeted at BRL242bn.
This year, tenders for Block One port works budgeted at BRL3.0bn are expected on 25 October and tenders for Block Two port works estimated at BRL3.2bn are expected in December.
Brazil's goal is to reach total infrastructure investments equivalent of 22.5% of GDP by 2017, according to the bank.
On 3 October, the minister of Brazil's Special Ports Secretariat, Jose Leonidas Cristino, resigned, spurred to do so by the decision of the Brazilian Socialist Party, or PSB, to abandon the government coalition of President Dilma Rousseff. It is unknown whether Crisitino’s decision will affect the development of the tenders for the port sector.
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