Port of Itajaí receives 28th GM car vessel

On Monday (11/25), the ship General San Martin docked in the Port of Itajaí. This is the 28th shipment with imported cars from automaker General Motors (GM-Chevrolet).

This time, 1,370 Cruze model vehicles were unloaded via the roll-on/roll-off system. With the docking made on Monday, the sum of vehicles landed since June 2018 reaches 33,933 units.

The Liberian flag ship is 175.91 meters long and 31.15 meters wide. The vessel, which belongs to Armador Maruba, departed from the Port of Zarate (Argentina) and proceeds to the Port of Paranaguá.

According to Itajaí Port Operations Management, the berthing occurred at berth 03 (public port) at 1 pm on Monday. Its operations started at 1:35 pm and were finalized at 8:55 pm. Its unberthing took place at 2:40 am on Tuesday (11/26).

All vehicle displacement work was performed by teams of single port workers (TPAs) of different categories, using the bonded enclosure of the public port.

The first docking of this type took place on June 9, 2018, when 500 Cruise vehicles were landed. The cars were aboard the Panamanian-flagged Apollo Highway.

GM-Chevrolet is a pioneer in Brazil in the maritime transport segment and the Port of Itajaí has a history associated with these roll-on/roll-off cargo operations since the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when it operated this type of activity with the main shipowners operating in this area.

According to information from the Itajaí Port Operations Management, the next mooring with GM vehicles will be the Michigan Highway ship, scheduled for arrival on December 15th. With the next landing, the Port of Itajaí may surpass the mark of more than 36,000 units from GM.

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