Port of Paranaguá registered a 7.4% increase in shipments in its export corridor

The volume of solid bulk shipped through the East export corridor of the Port of Paranaguá was 7.4% higher in the first four months of this year compared to the same period in 2021. In 2022, from January to April, 5,975,114 tonnes of soybeans, bran, wheat, and corn left the complex. In the same months last year, 5,561,822 tonnes did.

“The items that drove these figures up were mostly soy bran and corn handled in the corridor’s three berths,” explains Luiz Fernando Garcia, CEO of Portos do Paraná.

In percentage terms, the most significant increase occurred in corn shipments, up 35%: 798,152 tonnes this year and 591,538 tonnes in 2021. However, in terms of volume, shipments of soybean bran stood out. While last year’s exports totaled 1,288,261 tonnes, in the last four months, they reached 1,551,553 tonnes – 20.4% more.

As for soybeans, this year’s volume reached 3,592,513 tonnes, 75,510 tons less than last year (3,668,023 tonnes). Wheat, a product usually imported through the Port of Paranaguá, had a small export surplus through the port’s East Complex. In February this year, 32,805 tonnes were shipped – more than double the 14,000 tonnes registered in the same month in 2021.

See below the track record of containerized cargo exports via the Port of Paranaguá from January 2021 to March 2022. The data are from Datamar’s DataLiner.

Container Exports via Port of Paranaguá | Jan 2021 – March 2022 | TEUs

Source: DataLiner (click here to request a demo)

Corn – Last year, in March and April, no shipments of corn occurred at the Export Corridor of the Paraná-based port. In March and April of this year, 107,232 and 371,992 tonnes, respectively, left the three berths. The volume registered in April was almost 247% higher than that reported in the previous month.

Currently, nine private or leased terminals operate in the Corridor: AGTL Cargill, Centro Sul, Cimbessul, Coamo I and II, Cotriguaçu, Interalli, Louis Dreyfus, and Rocha. Together, they add up to 1.025 million tonnes of global capacity.

In addition, five public silos are interconnected to the complex: one vertical, with a static capacity of 100 thousand tons, and four horizontal, with a total capacity of 60 thousand tons.

Vessels – In the first four months of this year, 102 ships docked at the complex to load grain – seven more than in 2021 in the same period.

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