Rumo increases biodiesel transport via rail by over 30%

Rumo Logística continues to increase the volume of B100 biodiesel transported via rail. It moved 78,000 cubic meters between January and May this year, a 31% year-on-year increase.  Rumo’s best month was April, when the volume was 50% higher than year-ago levels.

According to the National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP), Rio Grande do Sul is Brazil`s largest producer state, having produced 1.4m cublic meters in 2018, 30% more than in 2017. Between January and April of this year the state already reached production levels of 482,614 cubic meters, 18% more than the same period last year.

The fuel used by the country’s largest distributors is shipped via Rumo trains at terminals in the cities of Passo Fundo, Ijuí and Canoas. The cargo is transported to Araucária (PR), where it is offloaded and sent by road to markets in Paraná and São Paulo.

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