Antonina handles new types of cargo in April

This week, Port of Antonia carried out two unprecedented operations. On April 5, the port handled the first imported malt cargo for the national brewing industry. On April 8, the shipment of foodstuffs to Venezuela began.

Exports

In the Port of Antonina, the holds of the MV PARKGRACHT are being filled with big bags of corn flour, rice, sugar, wheat flour, cornmeal, vegetable cream, pasta, and corn seed for export.

According to the operations manager, Terminals Portuarios da Ponta do Félix (TPPF), more than 10,000 tons of food produced in the states of Paraná, São Paulo, and Goiás are being shipped to the Port of La Guaira, in Venezuela.

“This is about receiving loose cargo, in bales ranging from 10 to 30 kg, packed in small bags of different products. These bales are unitized in big bags, stored inside the TPPF enclosure and subsequently lifted to the ship”, explains Waltersohn Gunther, terminal operations coordinator.

Another shipment of the same type of food products is already announced for later this month. The expectation is that new lots will also be shipped through the Port of Antonina in the coming months.

In addition to these products, another new export product is scheduled for in April: cane pellets will be shipped through the terminal for the first time.

Imports

On April 5, the TPPF unloaded the first malt cargo. The port received about 15,500 tons imported from Australia, which arrived in the holds of the MV Callio.

“The operation is similar to the movement of soybean meal, regarding the care in handling the food product. It is a great challenge, but we did not start from zero; we have a lot of experience acquired in the handling of segregated products”, explains the TPPF operations coordinator.

The terminal constructed six vertical concrete silos located inside the bonded area. Three are already almost finished, and three others are just being started. “This condition allows the customer to keep the cargo under a customs warehousing regime and limit their inventories in the production line to the effective demand, thereby generating significant gains in logistics and tax/cash flow,” he says.

The operation initiates a contract that provides, on average, six or seven vessels a year for the malt handling.

“With these operations, the TPPF denotes its vocation as a complementary port to Paranaguá. We operate with complex loads that require special care to meet the customers’ most specific demands,” says the terminal coordinator.

According to the operator of the Port of Antonina, the focus is to work case by case on the logistics solution, developing a specific chain. “From the rigorous process of sorting trucks and sanitizing warehouses to promoting increased productivity in port operations,” concludes Waltersohn Gunther, terminal operations coordinator.

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