Brazil’s Tegram terminal hits record grain exports in August, up 7% in year-to-date shipments

Brazilian exports through the Maranhão Grain Terminal (Tegram) totaled 1.75 million tonnes of soybeans and corn in August, a record volume, the consortium operating at the Port of Itaqui told Reuters.

The figure exceeds August 2024 shipments by 150,000 tonnes.

From January to August, total exports through Tegram, one of the country’s main agribusiness terminals, reached about 10 million tonnes, including 9.23 million tonnes of soybeans and the remainder in corn and soybean meal.

With the arrival of the second corn crop on the market, following Brazil’s record soybean harvest in the first half of the year, Tegram projects record shipments of more than 15 million tonnes of grains — the same level reached in 2023. Volumes in 2024 were affected by a smaller harvest.

Located in São Luís, the terminal receives grains produced in the Mapito region (Maranhão, Piauí, and Tocantins) as well as from northeastern Mato Grosso and Bahia, serving as the main hub of the so-called Northern Arc, which has helped Brazil reduce logistical bottlenecks for exports through the South and Southeast.

The Tegram-Itaqui consortium — formed by Terminal Corredor Norte (TCN), Bunge, Corredor Logística e Infraestrutura (CLI), and ALZ Grãos (Amaggi, Louis Dreyfus Company, and Zen-Noh Grain Terminais Portuários) — operates with two berths.

After ten years of operations in this strategic agribusiness region, Tegram has launched a third expansion phase, which foresees infrastructure for an additional berth and an increase of 8.5 million tonnes in operational capacity.

Source: Terra

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