Largest Ro-Ro capacity-wise arrives at Brazil’s Paranagua terminal

The Italian ship Grande Abidjan, owned by Grimaldi, docked at the Paranaguá Container Terminal (TCP) this Thursday (23). It is the largest Ro-Ro (Roll on – Roll off) type ever to berth in the Port of Paranaguá, with enough capacity for 71,000 tonnes of cargo. The previous largest vessel in this category, the Italian Grande Buenos Aires, also owned by Grimaldi, has a capacity of 56 thousand tonnes.

A curiosity of Ro-Ro ships is their ability to transport rolling cargo. Depending on the model and size, rolling cargo can be project cargoes: products with dimensions or weights that do not match traditional container standards. In this case, for example, light vehicles will be loaded onto the vessel, which will have access to the ship through a ramp from the terminal pier.

According to the manager of shipowners at the terminal, Carolina Brown, “one of the great challenges of logistics today is the movement of project cargo, as these are complex operations that require precautions and great expertise.”

According to Brown, investments in staff, infrastructure, and technology helped achieve significant advances in these shipments. “We grew our teams, which allowed us to break several records as early as 2022,” she says. One was productivity: TCP scored 202 movements per hour in October on the same vessel.

About Grande Abidjan

With a capacity for 3,500 light vehicles and 2,500 lane meters (space to accommodate Ro-Ros such as trucks and buses), the vessel is 36m wide and 236m long. There are around 500 containers on deck per trip. The ship, which left Ivory Coast and visited Brazil for the first time, will head to Mexico.

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