Eldorado Brasil and CMA CGM invest in pulp rail transport

Eldorado Brasil, one of the country’s largest pulp exporters, has started a partnership with CMA-CGM to take its cargo by rail to the port of Santos. The cargo, which was previously transported in trucks, is now being carried in containers by train from Jundiaí, in the interior of São Paulo, to the port of Santos. This measure will remove around 25,000 truck voyages from highways and roads every year.

With the new railway operation, the pulp cargo leaves the Eldorado Brasil plant in Três Lagoas (MS) by truck to the city of Jundiaí. There it is transferred to containers that are loaded onto trains. The railway runs all the way to the very edge of the terminal, alongside the pier, from where it is lifted onto ships for export.

Aside from eliminating the truck journeys between Jundiaí and Santos, the new transport system also reduces local traffic in Santos, which was necessary under the previous scheme, as empty and full containers had to transit between the container stuffing yard and the terminal.

According to Eldorado Brasil, aside from the environmental benefits and reduced traffic, the new route generates jobs in both cities. When the cargo arrives in Jundiaí, Contrail employees working at the railway terminal help transfer the cargo to the trains. In Santos, staff are also hired to handle the unloading of the containers and loading on to the vessels.

It is worth remembering that the available rail options cannot meet all the Eldorado Brasil pulp exports. Therefore truck deliveries to the Eldorado / Rishis terminal, in the Outeirinhos region, in Santos, continue to take place. A team of more than 80 qualified personnel work on these deliveries.

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