Brazil: Paraná ports report 7% increase in cargo volume in April

The Paraná-based ports of Paranaguá and Antonina either exported or imported, in April, 4,952,059 tonnes of cargo. The volume is 7% higher than the 4,614,088 tonnes handled in April 2022. In the four-month period, the total volume exceeds 19 million tonnes, 2% more than the 18.7 million recorded from January to April last year.

Exports exceeded imports in volume and percentage last month and in the first four months of the year. More than 62% of all cargo that passes through the ports of Paraná are shipments that leave the state destined for overseas.

“The five main destinations of the cargo that left the ports in Paraná in this period were China, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, and India,” says Gabriel Vieira, Operations Director at port authority Portos do Paraná. He also underscored that the most exported products in the year were part of the soy complex (beans, oil, and meal), sugar, and chicken. “The latter, in containers. The others, all shipped in bulk”.

See below the volume of soybeans exported from Paranagua Port between Jan 2019 and Mar 2023. The data is from DataLiner.

Soy exports from Paranagua Port | Jan 2019 – Mar 2023 | WTMT

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In April, exports totaled 3,175,309 tonnes, 10% more than in April last year, with 2,892,813 tonnes. “In April, we shipped almost 100% more soybeans than in April 2022. This data confirms the change in the pattern of the new harvest that, this year, is coming later,” says Vieira.

In the four-month period, a total of 11,952,978 tonnes were exported. Compared to the 10,972,696 tonnes accumulated from January to April last year, the increase was 9%.

“In imports, we registered a high of 6% in the month but a fall of 11% in the accumulated four-month period,” says Vieira. “Different from what we observed in the first three months, in April, the importation of fertilizers, the main products that arrive here, went up again.

Last April, 1,916,365 tonnes of cargo entered through the ports of Paranaguá and Antonina. In 2022, the landings totaled 1,807,648 tonnes.

From January to April this year, imports totaled 5,331,293 tonnes. Last year, 5,999,414 tonnes of products arrived on Paraná shores.

According to Gabriel Vieira, the 2% increase in the total volume handled in the first four months of the year may not seem like much, but it is. “Considering that this year, from January to April, we had 5.5 more days of rain, the recorded increase is very positive and confirms our efforts to be more productive and efficient in our operational times,” guarantees Vieira.

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