Port of Itaqui receives the largest fuel ship

On December 5th, the largest ship ever operated by a fuel distribution company in Brazil docked in the Port of Itaqui. The 243-meter-long Pacific Rawan unloads 103,000 cubic meters of diesel from BR Distribuidora, about a quarter of the port’s storage capacity. This is the largest volume of liquid bulk handled in the country in a single landing.

The ship has left the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands and the cargo will be distributed to the company’s partner bases in Itaqui (Tequimar, Granel 2, Pool IPP/BR, and Transpetro). All this fuel that enters the Port of Itaqui supplies not only Maranhão, but also Piauí and the states of the Center-North of the country (Tocantins, southern Pará, part of Goiás, and Mato Grosso).

Alongside grains, petroleum products are one of the cargoes that have contributed most to the positive results in the operations of the public port of Maranhão this year. From January to November, 23.5m tons of cargo were handled by the Port of Itaqui, a volume 14.5% higher than the one registered in the same period of 2018. There were 7.4m tons just in liquid bulk (oil products), a 23% increase over the same period last year.

These results are due to the resumption of cargo handling in the fuel warehouse associated with the productivity of this operation in Itaqui, in addition to the startup of Berth 108 in 2018. And the forecast is that the movement of this cargo will continue to grow in the coming years.

Guaranteed Infrastructure

The construction of an additional fuel tanker is currently being completed, which will increase the current storage capacity in Itaqui by at least 48,000 cubic meters. The investment is of R$170m from Tequimar/Ultracargo.

In addition, private investments of R$478.1m are planned for new liquid bulk terminals. The lease was authorized this year by the Federal Government’s Partnership and Investment Program (PPI) Council, based on the Technical, Economic, and Environmental Feasibility Studies (EVTEA) presented by EMAP (Maranhense Port Administration Company, manager of the public port of Maranhão).

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