Rumo partners with Caramuru to build new railroad terminal in São Simão (Goiás)

Rumo and Caramuru Alimentos have signed a new partnership to invest R$80 million in the construction of a railroad transshipment terminal for multimodal cargo transportation, connected to the North-South Railway.

Located in the municipality of São Simão, in the extreme southwest of Goiás, the terminal will be able to handle more than 5.5 million tonnes per year of soy, corn and soy meal, which is equivalent to more than 80,000 trucks per year.

Rumo and Caramuru Alimentos already have a partnership in running Terminal XXXIX in the Port of Santos (SP). The new railroad terminal will receive cargo from Goiás, Mato Grosso and the Minas Gerais Triangle region, thus increasing the competitiveness of agribusiness.

“It will be a high-capacity terminal and is among the three largest terminals in the interior of Brazil that will connect highways to the railroad and the Port of Santos. This operation is highly competitive as São Simão already has a railway in operation and the two most competitive, cheapest transportation systems are the waterway and the railway ”, explained the president of the Board of Directors of Caramuru Alimentos, Alberto Borges de Souza.

According to him, the terminal was positioned in the vicinity of a Caramuru factory already in operation using waterway transport, and that with the terminal will also operate with the railway. Alberto pointed out that the new railroad transshipment terminal will be open to providing services to all companies that are interested in transportation to the Port of Santos.

The São Simão terminal should start operating in the first half of 2021, with a static capacity of 42,000 tonnes, divided into six silos, a road discharge of 850 tonnes / hour (20 thousand tonnes / day) and a railway load of 3,000 tonnes / hour.

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