Paranaguá loads record amount of corn for a single shipment

The Port of Paranaguá Export Corridor shipped 57,193 tons of corn in a single mooring berth on Tuesday, June 25. That was more than 2,300 tons of grain per hour. The volume surpasses the previous mark, recorded on December 8, 2015, when 51,600 tons were shipped in a single day.

According to the president of the public company Paraná Ports, Luiz Fernando Garcia, the performance proves that the ports of Paraná are prepared to export the record harvest of Brazilian corn. “Our model of the Export Corridor, the rules of operation to prioritize the product, the capacity of our equipment and the productivity of port operators are differential,” he says.

Berth 213, the dock space at which the ship berths to receive the cargo, has two shiploaders and has special rules for operation, with priority given to exporters with cargo available and conditions for boarding in 36 hours .

“Priority mooring means entering before the other ships to operate in that space. For this, it is necessary to have the technical and operational capacity to guarantee that the ship will be loaded within the estimated time,” says the operational director Luiz Teixeira.

According to him, if the deadline is not met, the penalty for the operators is to have to unberth the ship immediately and take on the extra costs of the extra berthing and unberthing and with the stay of the ship. “In addition, they will not have priority on the second time,” says Teixeira.

In the case of the record operation, the loading plan was 61,408 tons and the loading was to be completed in 34 hours at the most. The operation was performed in less than 29 hours. The operators went to Cargill, South Center and Louis Dreyfus. The ship loaded with corn was the Puppis Ocean which left for Shibushi, Japan.

The Port of Paranaguá is one of the main points of exit of Brazilian corn. This Thursday, June 27, a ship carries 63,700 tons. Later this week, two other ships are scheduled to dock and load 136,550 tons of grain.

In the pre-scheduling, seven vessels will carry 424,450 tons of the product and five more have already been announced to arrive and carry 292,000 tons between June 29 and July 10.

In the last ten days (from June 15 to 25), seven ships carried a total of almost 381,200 tons of the grain.

Source: Ports of Paraná

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