Port of São Francisco revitalizes internal railway structure to prepare for record soy harvest

The next soybean crop in Brazil, which starts in early 2022, promises to be the biggest in history.

This week, the Port of São Francisco do Sul therefore advanced and concluded the improvement works to receive soy via rail.

The sector that receives the trains at the Graneleiro Terminal underwent an extensive revitalization that included reforming the railway scale, leveling the platform, and the maintenance of the hopper, which is the structure into which the wagons are unloaded.

From the hopper, the grain is directed to the warehouses or ships by a conveyor belt.

The elevator that transports the cereals also received improvements: the ‘cage’ was replaced and the entire 27-meter-high structure was modernized.

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Most of the grain comes from Santa Catarina, Paraná and Mato Grosso do Sul and reaches the Port through the railway corridor that connects Mafra, in the North Plateau of SC, to the Port of São Francisco over a 170 km path.

The transshipment and distribution of wagons to São Francisco do Sul is carried out in Corupá, 80 kilometers from the port complex.

Each train is made up of an average of 80 wagons which transport around 50 tons each.

Thus, every year, approximately 57,000 wagons are unloaded at three locations in the port complex: at the Graneleiro Terminal, managed by the Porto, and at two more private terminals, Terlogs and Bunge.

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