Santos Brasil completes modernization of Tecon Vila do Conde

Santos Brasil has announced the completion of the last civil works of the modernization project at Tecon Vila do Conde, a container terminal located in Barcarena (PA). In total, the civil works spanned 25 months and included the concrete paving of 36,000m² of a patio to store containers and the construction of two new gates. Spaces for changing rooms and cafeterias for employees were also included.

Another novelty is the automation of the gates at the terminal entrances, speeding up the flow of trucks and increasing the security of information and cargo. Developed based on modern Internet of Things (IoT) structures, the automated gates allow biometric authentication. This results in better driver control and management by eliminating registration lines and standardizing processes, automating the reading of license plates and container plates using OCR sensors, weighing the loaded truck, and synchronizing data between the company’s units.

Currently, Tecon Vila do Conde has four entrance gates and two exit gates, and a concrete floor throughout its storage yard, which allows greater speed for operation and greater storage capacity. It also has nine reach stackers – three of which have just arrived at the terminal – replacing existing equipment for handling containers in the yard, and three MHC wheeled cranes that operate at the dock for loading and unloading containerized goods or project cargo.

Between 2018 and 2019, Santos Brasil invested approximately R$ 60 million in civil works and yard and pier equipment. These investments provided a substantial increase in the productivity of the terminal and raised the level of service.

In recent years, Tecon Vila do Conde has shown consistent growth, and in 2019 it reached a record 104,000 containers were handled.  In 2020, project cargo handling was the highest among all products handled.

See the graph below for monthly cargo handling at Santos Brasil since 2017:

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