Port of Itaqui grows 32% in the 1st semester

With more than 15 million tons of cargo handled in this first half, the Port of Itaqui grew 32% compared to the same period in 2020. The biggest increase was registered in liquid bulk cargoes, registering 90% above what was handled in the first six months of last year. If we consider only warehouse operations, the increase reached 441%. There was also an increase in the movement of soy (19%) and general cargo (+7%). The volume registered in this half of the year corresponds to 80% of the total planned for the year in liquid bulk, 53% in solid bulk, and 52% in general cargo.

In June alone, 2.8 million tons of cargo passed through the public port of Maranhão, 19% more than in June 2020. Liquid bulk grew 143%. The almost 330,000 tons of fertilizers handled broke the previous monthly record, reached in August 2019, when 310,000 tons of this type of cargo were imported.

See the chart below for a comparison of the main cargoes handled via the Port of Itaqui in the first five months of 2020 and 2021. Data are from DataLiner:

Handling at the Port of Itaqui by type of cargo | Jan to May 2020-2021 | WTMT

Graph source: DataLiner (click here to request a demo)

Forecast

The numbers for the semester strengthen the trend of closing 2021 with more than 27 million tons handled (the planned volume for the period is 26.3 million tons). Soybean handling was as expected and should reach the end of the year above 13 million tons, adding the operations of Tegram and VLI, which in 2020 totaled 12.1 million tons.

The growth in the volume of liquid bulk also confirms the projections and should continue to grow in the short and medium terms, with the completion of the works on Tequimar-Ultracargo (this year yet), expansion of the Bulk Chemical Terminal, and the recent lease of four more areas for moving, storing and distributing fuels.

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