Itapoá port adds another 50 thousand sq m to its operational area

With the latest addition, the Itapoá port now has 300,000 square meters worth of operating yards. The new space has a static capacity of nearly 7,000 containers.

Brazil’s environmental authority Ibama, the Federal Revenue Service, and Antaq (National Waterway Agency) authorized the yard’s expansion, which is now cleared to work. The 50 thousand square meters large area will be added to the terminal’s current operating yard, totaling 300 square meters.

The new space has a static capacity of approximately 7 thousand containers, according to the president of Itapoá port, Cássio Schreiner. “It is an important increase in our operational capacity and will positively impact all the chains in which we participate,” he said.

See below the record of container exports from Itapoá port, in TEUs, compared to container imports from Jan 2019 to Oct 2022, according to the DataLiner market intelligence service.

Itapoá container exports vs. imports | Jan 2019 – Oct 2022 | TEUs

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The courtyard expansion is not finished yet, as Schreiner explained. “Over 150,000 square meters of the yard are already under construction, which will take us to 450,000 square meters of total area,” and he added: “When completed, the yard will allow us to operate with almost twice the current container movement.”

The construction company Piacentini, responsible for expanding the yard at Itapoá, delivered the first stage of the work on 08/15. The works cost BRL 750 million and began in February 2022. They employed 170 people, 98 of them directly.

Infrastructure investments

The port of Itapoá has been investing in infrastructure to expand its service capacity. Five more RTGs, a mobile crane on wheels suitable for moving containers in the yard, were purchased. The terminal already has 17 of these pieces of ZPMC equipment, but the new ones will be controlled remotely, and the Itapoá port will be the first in Brazil to have this technology. The first machines are scheduled to arrive in April 2023.

The port of Itapoá also acquired two new Reach Stacker forklifts already in use. The goal is to improve service between the ship and the yard by supplementing operations with the RTG, a mobile crane used in port operations to move and stack containers.

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