Rains limit sugar exports from Parana state ports

The amount of rainfall recorded near the Port of Paranagua in September was 133% higher than in September 2021. The Parana state ports meteorological station recorded 225 mm of accumulated water in the first 30 days of the year, up from 96.3 mm the previous year. Weather disruptions directly impacted cargo shipped in bulk, particularly sugar. Approximately 543,748 tonnes of sugar were shipped through the ports of Paranaguá and Antonina in September this year, compared to 632,383 tons in 2021.

“As loading operations are done out in the open, the ship’s captain has to suspend it when it rains to protect the cargo,” explains the public company director of operations, Luiz Teixeira da Silva.

See below the track record of the volume of sugar (HS code 1701) exported via the Port of Paranagua between January 2019 and August 2022. The data is from DataLiner.

Sugar exports via Port of Paranagua | Jan 2019 – Aug 2022 | WTMT

Source: DataLiner (click here to request a demo)

The main terminal and operator of the bulk product in the state, Pasa shipped 429,857 tonnes of sugar in the modality – almost 14% less than what was forecast for September.

According to Osvaldo Inácio da Silva, the company’s administrative and financial manager, there were about 270 hours of rain in the month, the equivalent of 10 days of no operation. “Demand for the commodity remains high. We expect to ship one million tonnes of product in the next three months,” he says.

On Monday (Oct 10), two vessels were docked, and another was scheduled to load sugar at the Port of Paranagua. Eleven were offshore, and twelve others are expected to arrive by the end of the month.

In general, cargo shipments through the Parana state ports increased by 5% in September. The volume of products shipped abroad totaled 3,033,720 tonnes, compared to 2.8 million in September last year. The volume handled by the ports of Paranaguá and Antonina this year is practically the same as in 2021 (44,461,024 tonnes), considering exports and imports.

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