Octo for port planning

Ports plan in layers. Octo helps keep each one up to date.

In Brazil, port planning is now the responsibility of the National Ports Secretariat, under the Ministry of Ports and Airports, with Integrated Transportation Planning under Decree 12.022/2024 and the instruments of MInfra Ordinance 61/2020: the Master Plan, the PDZ and the PGO. The PDZ is prepared by the port authority. Octo can help the team preparing the PDZ organize the plan's data, areas and versions.

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PITDecree 12.022/2024Integrated Transportation Planning

MInfra Ordinance61/2020Master Plan, PDZ and PGO

PDZArt. 17, § 2prepared by the port authority

Sources3listed at the end of the page

What Octo does in planning.

Four possible deliverables. The plan belongs to the port authority; Octo organizes the information it uses.

PDZ database

Can bring together in one database the areas, uses and versions described in the development and zoning plan, with the source of each data point.

Deliverable: PDZ database with the source of each row

Areas dedicated and not dedicated to operations

Can build the list of areas within the port boundary with the use designated in the PDZ, so the team can separate what is and isn't directly dedicated to operations, as the decree defines.

Deliverable: list of areas for review

Versions and approvals

Can record each PDZ version submitted and approved, with its date and what changed, so the next update starts from the record.

Deliverable: version history

Plans side by side

Can build a table that puts side by side what the Master Plan, the PDZ and the PGO say about the same area, so the team can see where the plans diverge.

Deliverable: comparison table for review

Eight arms, one plan.

The same Octo cycle, applied to this topic. Each arm has a narrow role; the people who approve and sign are on your team.

Discovery
Reads the plans in force

Which PDZ version is approved, what the Master Plan and the PGO say, and where the files are.
Data
Organizes the areas

Each area with its designated use, its source in the plan and its version. Without this database, every update starts from scratch.
Security
Respects the plan in progress

Drafts and studies belong to the port authority. Octo works only in the environment the team approves.
Architecture
Picks the format

Database, spreadsheet or map layer, matching how the team already works.
Development
Builds the database

Areas, uses, versions and the link to the text of each plan.
Review
Checks with the planning team

The team preparing the PDZ reviews the database before it counts.
Release
Delivers with your OK

The database goes wherever the team says, only with your approval.
Documentation
Records each version

What changed from one version of the plan to the next, and when.

Octo does not approve plans. The PDZ is prepared by the port authority and approved by whoever the law and regulations designate.

Each instrument, its basis.

The instruments of port planning and who is responsible for them. The official text remains the reference.

Instrument or rule	Who or how	Basis
Integrated Transportation Planning	Established by Decree 12.022/2024	MPor, port planning
Master Plan, PDZ and PGO	Instruments of MInfra Ordinance 61/2020	MPor, port planning
PDZ	Prepared by the port authority and submitted for approval	Law 12.815/2013, art. 17, § 2
Content, form and updating of the PDZs	Governed by the granting authority	Decree 8.033/2013, art. 2, I
Area not dedicated to operations	Defined according to the PDZ	Decree 8.033/2013, art. 25, § 2

From request to routine.

Three steps. Each one only makes sense once the previous one has shown results on your team.

A proposal, not a promise

1 Today

Database of the plan in force

You point to the approved PDZ and Octo builds the database of areas and uses.

Areas with their designated use
Source of each data point in the plan

Benefit: the plan becomes something you query, not just a file

2 Next

Preparing the update

The next PDZ version starts from the database and the history.

Table with the Master Plan, PDZ and PGO side by side
List of what changed since the last version

Benefit: the update starts with what changed

3 Later

Plan kept current

The database is maintained with each approved version.

Version history
Link to the port's indicators

Benefit: the plan and the operation speak the same language

Confirmed by source.

Each point below has a source published by the agency responsible for the standard or the system, or by the IMO. The sources are in the next section.

points with a published source, each with its reference alongside.

ConfirmedWho is responsible today: According to the Ministry of Ports and Airports, port planning and its instruments are the responsibility of the National Ports Secretariat, a body of the ministry.Source: MPor, port planning
ConfirmedIntegrated Transportation Planning: Decree 12.022, of May 16, 2024, established Integrated Transportation Planning.Source: MPor, port planning
ConfirmedMaster Plan, PDZ and PGO: MInfra Ordinance 61/2020 covers the Master Plan, the Development and Zoning Plan (PDZ), the port authority's planning instrument, and the General Concessions Plan (PGO).Source: MPor, port planning
ConfirmedWho prepares the PDZ: The law says the port authority shall prepare the PDZ and submit it for approval by the Ports Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, as the text reads; today that responsibility lies with the National Ports Secretariat of the Ministry of Ports and Airports. The decree gives the granting authority the power to govern the content, form and update frequency of the PDZs.Source: Planalto, Law 12.815/2013, art. 17, § 2, and Decree 8.033/2013, art. 2, I; MPor
ConfirmedArea not dedicated to operations: The decree considers an area not dedicated to port operations to be any area within the boundary of the organized port that, according to the PDZ, is not directly dedicated to passenger handling or to the handling or storage of goods to or from waterway transport. The paragraph was added by Decree 9.048/2017.Source: Planalto, Decree 8.033/2013, art. 25, § 2

What Octo does and what stays with you.

Octo prepares everything, but does not sign. The document of record stays with whoever is accountable for it.

Octo prepares

Gathers, calculates, organizes and produces the documents: spreadsheets, reports, dashboards and drafts.

Deliverable: material ready for review

Your team reviews

The licensed professional reviews what Octo delivered before signing. If something doesn't add up, it goes back to Octo with the correction.

Step: review by whoever signs

Who signs

Octo does not sign. Designs, technical reports, ART/RRT, accountability reports and any official document are still signed by the licensed professional at the company or agency: here, the professional of record and the port authority.

Signature: professional of record and port authority

Sources.

The Ministry of Ports and Airports' port planning page and federal legislation published on the Planalto website. Accessed October 28, 2026.

MPor: port planningNational Ports Secretariat, PIT, Master Plan, PDZ and PGO
Planalto: Law 12.815/2013Art. 17, § 2, preparation of the PDZ
Planalto: Decree 8.033/2013Arts. 2, I, and 25, § 2

The port plan as a reference database.

The assessment starts with the plan in force and the files your team already has, without changing anything. You get a proposal for what can be organized and decide with it in hand.

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