Klabin to operate terminal at the Port of Paranaguá

On February 27, Brazil’s Minister of Infrastructure, Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas, signed a contract with Klabin, one of Brazil’s foremost producers of paper. The company will operate the PAR 01 container terminal, located in the Port of Paranaguá (PR).

The terminal was purchased by Klabin in an auction that took place in August 2019, under the Investment Partnerships Program (PPI). The terminal will be used for handling and storing pulp and general cargo for 25 years. At the time of auction the location had just an old warehouse in disuse. The company is expected to invest R$ 87 million in the project, generating around 300 direct and indirect jobs.

The greenfield area covers 27,530 m², and has a total static capacity of approximately 80 thousand tons, considering an average storage density of 4 tons per square meter for general cargo or dry bulk. There will be two phases of implementation, the first focused on obtaining licenses and building the new warehouse, starting later this year.

The expectation is that, once the work is completed, the terminal will meet the growing demand from the forestry segment, especially pulp, from the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and São Paulo.

It is worth remembering that the Port of Paranaguá is the second largest in the country, second only to Santos (SP), and the largest bulk port in Latin America.

Auctions

According to the minister, the 13 port auctions, carried out last year, and the signing of 29 adhesion contracts for private terminals resulted in a total of R$ 3.3 billion in investments in the port sector alone. “We had several ports increasing revenue, decreasing expenses and breaking throughput records, as was the case with Santos, with 134 million tons and Paranaguá, with 53 million tons. It is a sector that is reborn, because it is going in the right direction and because we have technical and professional management in all ports ”.

The minister added that around the middle of the year, five other port terminals are expected to be auctioned. “Four in the Port of Itaqui and the PAR 20 here in Paranaguá. We will make a list of port terminals for grains and also for liquids. The two largest liquid terminal auctions will take place soon. One in Santos and the other in Paranaguá. We will have a healthy competition ”.

Source: Agência Brasil

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