Native wood exports remain paralyzed in Brazil’s northern ports

Native wood exports have been paralyzed at the ports of Rondônia and Pará, in the north of the country, for over 100 days. Not even IBAMA’s (the Brazilian Institute for environmental and renewable resources) decision to create a task force has helped the situation. Last month, the unit deployed a team of 34 servers to release shipments, but the pace remained slow.

Some companies chose to take their cargo 3000 km away to Paranaguá (PR) – by cabotage or even by road  – to ship the products and honor part of the contracts with clients abroad, despite the displacement costs. In southern ports, there is a slowdown and lack of containers, but shipments take less time. About 20 containers originating in Mato Grosso are in the Paraná terminal yard.

The crisis has caught the attention of the federal government. On the 13th, representatives of the wood sector in Pará met with Vice President Hamilton Mourão to ask for help. Businessmen reported the delay in shipments and the four months of accumulated losses.

“We no longer know who to turn to. We are not exporting on a large scale in the state. We have more than 2,000 containers loaded and ready for export, with legal, certified, traceable, but paralyzed products”, said the technical director of AIMEX (the association of wood-exporting Industries of the state of Pará), Eduardo Leão. “We are doing our part by producing legally and sustainably, generating income and jobs. However, due to the inefficiency of the environmental agency, we are entering an unprecedented crisis for the sector”, he concluded.

Source: Valor Econômico

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