A report by the General Audit’s Office (AGN, for its acronym in Spanish) revealed that the General Administration of Ports (AGP, for its acronym in Spanish), under the National Government aims to carry forward the port activity, however, it is far behind because they never "adapted" to changes, such as the transfer of the provincial ports orbits. They are still operating on "habits" under a structure approved over 20 years ago.

The AGP is the State Society that was intervened in 2003 and aims to "the management, administration, and operation of the commercial ports of Argentina". It is also the "watchdog regarding concessionaire port terminals."

National Ports Act which involved the granting of the terminals and their transfer to provincial orbits, except for Buenos Aires whose transfer was vetoed by the Executive Branch was issued in June 1992. Despite these changes, the audit said there is a "lack of fit" and that the agency "continues to resort to informalities, depending on the degree of knowledge and attitude of the staff to carry out the tasks."

To make the picture even clearer about the lack of modernization of the AGP, the auditors noted that "in 2010 the agency was still operating with the structure used in 1990," before the modifications generated from the new harbor legislation. Only in 2010, "was it put into operation a working committee to design a new organizational structure."

As for port permits, the report indicated that the commercial management of the AGP is "in charge of monitoring and control" of those licenses which are granted to individuals for the operation of services in ports (use permits), but still "unknown charges that are made by such permits, which at the time of the audit amounted to 111 permits," because "they don’t have access to the administration of the system."

The watchdog emphasized that the documentation supporting these permissions "is not organized with the necessary formalities: they are single sheets, missing portfolios, and missing resolutions renewing the permits," among other issues. In this situation, the AGN said that information you can get about it "depends lesson documentation but the people in charge of the tasks."

Moreover, the audit noted that the audited body has 500 agents "serving under different contractual arrangements." In this regard, they said that there are "a low proportion of professionals" in addition to "the lack of an adequate organizational structure to carry out the administration."

Another point made by the Federal Watchdog said that the report approved this year on data for the period 2007 to 2009, is that the Port Management "does not have a reliable information system that reduces uncertainty when making decisions." In fact, the GIGA system used for accounting management "was observed in previous reports of the AGN and the General Office of the Comptroller (SIGEN, for its acronym in Spanish) for endangering the efficiency and effectiveness of the performance of the functions of the body".