Paraná trade balance shows an increase in rail transport

Of the 34.89 million tons of cargo that arrived or left the Port of Paranaguá between January and July of this year, 6.72 million were transported in railway cars. The volume corresponds to 19.3% of the total.

The use of railways to transport products during the first seven months of this year is 29.5% higher than in the same period in 2020. Last year, of the 33.3 million tons imported and exported, 14.9% ( 4.97 million tons) were transported via train.

“Considering the monthly movement, the increase is even greater. Last July, 20.8% of the cargo arrived or left the ports of Paraná by rail”, says the CEO of Portos do Paraná, Luiz Fernando Garcia.

In volume, this represents 1.2 million tons, of the almost 5.8 million moved in the last month. In the same 31 days, in 2020, 16.24% – 831,580 tons-of the 5.12 million tons transported in the month – left or arrived in Paranaguá by railroad.

Corn, soy, bran, fertilizers, petroleum derivatives, containerized cargo, wheat, and sugar are the products that arrived or left the Port of Paranaguá via rail so far this year. The soy and sugar shipments were the largest.

Increases in the volume handled by the railroad were registered in several segments: in the transport of soybeans (almost 2.7 million tons this year by rail; almost 2.6 million tons in 2020); fertilizers (169,707 tons this year; 63,610 tons in 2020); petroleum products (this year there were 141,218 tons transported via rail; in 2020 there were none); container cargo (616,299 tons this year; no record of this rail transport in 2020); of wheat (9,527 tons this year; no record in 2020); and sugar (1.96 million tons this year; 1.51 million in 2020).

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