Imbituba cargo handling reaches best first half in a decade

From January to June 2021, the Port of Imbituba recorded its best operating result in 10 years for the first semester. With 2.9 million tons handled, the volume of cargo transported grew by 11.5% compared to the same period last year. The number of unloadings also registered an increase of 33.3%, with 128 ships between the three berths.

Imports led operations, followed by exports, cabotage transport, and transshipment of goods between ships. In relation to the port authority’s net operating revenue, there was an increase of 25.5% compared to the same half of 2020. The amount is used for the maintenance of infrastructure and investments.

“The achievement of this historic milestone reaffirms the importance of the Port of Imbituba and demonstrates the potential, strength, and dynamism of the Santa Catarina economy, which even with the Covid-19 pandemic has shown positive results, such as the creation move than 111,000 jobs from January to May. Santa Catarina is a state of diversified and intense production. We are an example for the country”, highlights Governor Carlos Moisés.

The cargoes most transported by the Port this year were petroleum coke, containers, soy, bituminous coal, salt, and iron ore. Together, bulk minerals represented about 50% of the total handled, with an emphasis on coke and hard coal, which practically doubled their volumes in the 1st half of last year.

“With the heated commodity market and an infrastructure capable of meeting market demand, we were able to end the semester as planned, which gives us confidence that this positive scenario should continue in the coming months, strengthened even more by the prospect of the pandemic situation improving”, assesses Fábio Riera, CEO of SCPAR Porto de Imbituba.

Until May, the Port of Imbituba showed growth, even setting an all-time record for monthly handling, with 681,900 tons. In June, there was a retraction of 26.5% compared to 2020, when a new record had been set. According to Aristeu Cavalca, operations manager at the port authority, “the diversification of cargoes meant that the June result was able to remain stable, even with the rainy periods, which ended up transferring some operations to July.”

The forecast of ships for this month already points to a possible new record at the port, with the perspective of moving around 690,000 tons. For the year, the port authority estimates to register a volume of 6.2 million tons which, if confirmed, will go down in the history of Santa Catarina’s public port as its best year on record.

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