Port of Paranaguá will receive 6m tons of grain by December

By the end of this year, the Port of Paranaguá should receive for unloading more than 6.12m tons of bulk for export. The expected volume for the last quarter of 2019 is 14% higher than the total moved by the sector in the same period last year. In the last three months of 2018, approximately 5.26m tons of soy, corn, bran, and sugar were exported.

According to the president of the Ports of Paraná, Luiz Fernando Garcia, exports are expected to increase even further with the intensification of the trade war between the United States and China. “Starting in September, the US will impose additional tariffs on Chinese products. With this, Brazilian producers will have a good time,” he said.

He points out that to meet this demand, the public company maintains projects that aim to improve the land, maritime, and reception and storage infrastructure. These include access improvements, maintenance dredging, and the Export Corridor repowering project.

Modals

By December, the expected volume of soy (grain and bran), corn, and sugar is sufficient to load around 100 vessels. The projection for this fourth quarter of the year was released by the cargo operator terminals themselves.

Based on the latest statistics, about 70% of bulk should arrive in trucks (4.27m tons) and another 30% in wagons (1.83m).

A truck carries 36 tons of grain on average. Therefore, to load the expected volume for this mode would require approximately 118,600 trucks. The volume that should be transported by rails exceeds 33,272 wagons, each with about 55 tons.

Bulk

The largest expected volume is of soy. Around 2.69m tons will be unloaded at the 11 terminals in the next three months. The forecast for bran is of 1.16m tons.

In the case of maize, the expectation of the terminals that operate the grains at the Port of Paranaguá is over 1.37m tons. Pasa, the main bulk sugar operator, expects to move 900,000 tons of the product by December.

Operators

The bulk export operators are AGTL, Cargill, South Center, Cimbessul, Coamo, Contriguaçu, Interalli, Louis Dreyfus, Rocha, Bunge, Pasa, and Public Silos – through which those who do not have their own terminals in Paranaguá operate.

The terminal that should handle the most by the end of the year, after Pasa, is Cargill. The company forecasts a volume of 830,000 tons for this last quarter, mainly of corn (360,000 tons).

The largest volume of soy is expected by Louis Dreyfus. They should board the terminal with 465,000 tons of grain. In bran, Bunge expects the largest volume: 312,000 tons.

From the public silos the shipments are forecast to be 480,000 tons of bulk, 180,000 of them of bran and 300,000 tons of soybeans.

Workers

According to the Silos Division of the Ports of Paraná, four public trucks can be unloaded at the same time by the unloading hopper of the public silos. Up to six train wagons that can be simultaneously unloaded. In addition to moving goods, these activities also mobilize labor.

At each six-hour shift, 12 single-port workers (TPAs) are summoned to unload the bulk trucks and wagons. That is, every 24 hours there are 48 workers involved.

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