Leasing contract for Liquid Bulk Terminal (TGL) at the Port of Imbituba signed

The Ministry of Infrastructure, the National Ports and Waterway Transportation Secretariat, and SCPAR Porto de Imbituba signed, on the 30th, the leasing agreement for the Liquid Bulk Terminal (TGL) at the Port of Imbituba with Ferlizantes Santa Catarina (Fertisanta). This company won the contract in the auction held in November last year. The signing took place in the São Paulo Stock Exchange (B3). The new contract has a 10-year term and provides for investments and increased handling rates at the port.

The leasing will inject around R$ 25 million into modernization projects for the Terminal, not to mention the R$ 200 thousand grant agreed upon contract. TGL was specifically designed to handle and store caustic soda and was already under temporary leasing by Fertisanta, which was also awarded the contract for the Fertilizer and Animal Feed Terminal (TERFER) at the Port of Imbituba.

The TGL has 7,455.00 m² and is located between Piers 1 and 3. The expected Terminal’s enhancements include recovering two inoperable tanks, tripling the present static storage capacity, around 5 thousand m3, with one tank in service. The Terminal also has 806 meters of supply ducts that connect the pier to the TGL and allow cargo to be carried straight from the vessel to the Terminal. It also features equipment for loading road transport vehicles.

The lessee expects that it will take around 18 months after signing the contract to begin operating with the three present tanks. According to José Roberto Martins, managing partner of Fertisanta, “we anticipate that after signing the contract and complying with legal formalities, we will be working at full capacity with the existing tank and the other two that will be entirely refurbished in 18 months. We aim to attain 60,000 t/y with the present structure and begin operating at 100,000 t/y in the contract’s third year.”

The transition contract for the Mineral Bulk Terminal at the Port of Imbituba (A6-1) will also be signed next week. The area is no longer a greenfield (without infrastructure) due to the construction of warehouses and iron ore handling facilities.

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