Container handling grows 15% at Port of Paranaguá

Container handling at the Port of Paranaguá has increased by 15%. From January to October this year, 726,393 units (TEUs) arrived and departed from the Paraná terminal. In the same period, in 2018, there were 633,710.

According to the Director of Operations of the public company Portos do Paraná, Luiz Teixeira da Silva Júnior, the demand from the state’s productive sector and the good operating conditions of the Paranaguá Container Terminal contribute to this growth in the segment’s handling. “Day by day, with new investments, the terminal has been equipping itself to receive the demand from the State and the region of influence of Portos do Paraná,” says Teixeira.

Trade – In terms of imports, 365,786 TEUs were handled, 16% more than the 316,125 imported last year, in the first ten months. Another 360,607 units left the port with cargo, a 14% increase compared to the 312,585 units exported in the same period of 2018.

The product exported in largest volume in containers is chicken meat. According to the Statistics Division of the Portos do Paraná Department of Operations, 1.76m tons left the terminal from January to October this year, 9% more than last year’s 1.62m tons.

“The Paranaguá Container Terminal has one of the largest refrigerated container infrastructures. And the state of Paraná is the main chicken producer in Brazil. This combination enables this demand to be directed to our port,” explains the director.

More than half (64.2%) of exported chicken originates from Paraná, followed by the states of Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, and Santa Catarina. The main destinations for poultry meat exported by the Paraná terminal are, respectively, China, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Hong Kong.

Meat – Despite being moved in smaller volume – from January to October this year there were 255,633 tons – exports of meat in containers registered an increase of 41%, compared to 181,017 tons exported last year.

The beef exported by Paranaguá comes mainly from Mato Grosso, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul, São Paulo, and Paraná. The main destinations are China, Hong Kong, Egypt, Iran, and United Arab Emirates.

Movement – The total cargo that passed through Portos of Paraná, in both directions, exportation and importation, already amounts to 44.7m tons in these ten months. The volume is 0.6% higher than in the same period last year.

In general cargo, container segment and others, there were 9.36m tons handled from January to October this year. The volume is 7% higher than in 2018 (8.74m).

In the other segments, the movement of solid bulk reached 29.6m tons, almost the same volume as last year, and 5.7m tons of liquid bulk, 5% less than in 2018.

The following graph, made from Datamar’s DataLiner data, shows container handling in the Port of Paranaguá since January 2015:

Source: DataLiner/Datamar

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