Bid notices for Alemoa port terminals to be published in June

In less than two months, the bid notices should be published for the STS08 and STS08A terminals in Alemoa, in the Port of Santos.  Despite the expectation, studies for these port leases have not yet been approved by the Federal Accounting Court, which analyzes the processes.

The areas are contiguous (today, they include the Transpetro, Petrobras terminal) and add up to 443,000 square meters, but will be auctioned separately – 137.3 thousand square meters for STS08 and 305.6 thousand square meters for STS08A.

The main products moved by the terminals are petroleum products, ethanol and other chemical products. According to DataLiner the number of vessel calls per month ranges, on average, between 15 and 20 each month.

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The studies were delivered to the Federal Accounting Court in November last year. According to the agency, the matter is the subject of a rapporteur process by Minister Raimundo Carreiro, which the Court has not yet considered.

The privatization analysis by the Federal Accounting Court is based on a normative instruction from the agency. It states that after receiving all the necessary documents, the technical unit of the Court has up to 75 days to send the merit proposal to the minister-rapporteur. However, the rapporteur authorized the extension of this deadline by 30 days because of the complexity of the subject.

“The technical team has already completed the analyzes and, under the terms of the normative instruction and the Federal Accounting Court Resolution, the proposals were submitted to the managers for comments. They have until April 19 to respond. As soon as they answer, the technical team will make the final analysis and submit it to the reporting minister,” explained the agency in a note.

For specialists in the sector, the auctions will be very disputed, mainly the STS08, which will require less investment after the lease is signed. STS08A, on the other hand, may raise the interest of companies in the gas sector. In both cases, new players are expected, in addition to Transpetro.

According to the Ministry of Infrastructure, the portfolio expectations are the best possible for these leases. “The terminals will consolidate the largest lease auction in 20 years, with a forecast of R$ 1.6 billion in investments”, informed the folder.

The design of the two terminals foresees an increase in the capacity of the facilities installed on the site and their modernization, in addition to the construction of two berths at the Alemoa Liquid Bulk Terminal (Tegla), a pier where ships dock that handle liquids in the region. With these interventions, the storage capacity of the terminals will increase from the current 7.3 million to 10.8 million tons.

According to the government, the two lots “act as regulators of the Petrobras derivatives production stock,” providing services such as transferring and receiving products from vessels, supplying bunker oil (marine fuel) on ships moored in the Port of Santos, shipping products from refineries, and sending LPG to distribution companies located in the Southeast and Midwest.

Next plans

Other terminals are also on the list of Federal Government leases. There is a forecast for the installation of a new container terminal in Saboó, the STS10. In the same region, the implementation of a retro port terminal is also planned. And facilities for solid mineral bulk (STS53) and vegetable bulk (STS11) will also be auctioned off.

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