Port of Santos’ terminals will clear yards to ease truck traffic on the roads

The terminals at the Port of Santos will create more unloading spaces, thus creating more room for trucks in the regulatory yards, which will be better able to absorb incoming traffic to Cubatão. The information was disclosed by the state of São Paulo’s Transport Agency (Artesp).

Taking such a measure was decided on the afternoon of April 6 at a meeting between the members of the Integrated Management Program (PGI) of Santos after another day of chaos caused by the excessive truck flow on the Anchieta-Imigrantes road system.

Artesp coordinates PGI, which brings together representatives of the Military Highway Police (PMR), city halls, load generating centres, yards, unions and companies. The group had already made commitments to take actions to mitigate congestion in the region in previous meetings, but yesterday’s situation shows that there was no effective result.

The traffic jam reached 12 kilometers on the Rodovia Cônego Doménio Rangoni, in Guarujá. The slow traffic movement on Cônego also impaired the ability to enter Cubatão. The high number of trucks that head to the coast during this period of the soybean harvest is a long-standing phenomenon that has been causing problems for years.

Whose fault is that?

Artesp has informed that PGI representatives are implementing the necessary measures to mitigate the impact of the high flow of commercial vehicles. The agency blamed Santos Port Authority (SPA) for the situation on the 6th, saying that the congestion occurred “due to incompatibilities in the SPA scheduling system.”

“SPA cleared more trucks to go to the regulatory yeards than the terminals could actually absorb. Also, terminals that handle grains cannot operate on rainy days. So, to reverse the situation, it was added more room to the regulatory yards, and, consequently, the flow to the port’s terminals increased.”

SPA questions such a claim. The port authority states that the system used to schedule incoming cargo trucks did not record any abnormality in the number of trucks between Tuesday and Wednesday. “It was, in fact, below the approved limit per port terminal.”

 What may be the solution? 

Cubatão’s day-to-day operations were severely impacted by road traffic. The municipality’s city hall is demanding a solution and met with officials from the Industrial Pole, Ecovias, PMR, Ecopátio, and Rodopark on Wednesday.

“The problem mainly lies with the scheduling of trucks to unload at the ports. Therefore, we request that Rodopark find a way to optimize this schedule and minimize demand,” said Jeferson da Silva, superintendent of the Municipal Transit Company.

Source: A Tribuna

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