Ship carries almost 108 thousand tons of soy bran at the Port of Paranagua

The ship Maran Astronomer returns to the Port of Paranaguá to break records. It docked at dawn on the 6th, already as a record holder, as in November 2022 it loaded 103,340 tons of soy bran. The brand itself was defeated last week, when 107,717 tons of the product were shipped, bound for Holland and Poland.

To date, in addition to the Maran Astronomer itself, only two other ships have shipped more than 100,000 tons of bulk in Paranaguá, according to the Director of Operations at Portos do Paraná, Luiz Teixeira da Silva Júnior. One of them was E.R. Bayonne, which carried 103,403 tonnes in July 2020, and Pacific Myra, which carried 105,000 tonnes (April 2021).

Luiz Teixeira Silva states that recent operational gains have allowed the Port of Paranaguá to receive large ships, with better use of cargo capacity in the various segments.

“The three berths in the East Export Corridor (212, 213 and 214), for example, went from 12.50 meters to 12.80 meters in draft, which is the maximum depth that vessels can be submerged in water. Thirty centimeters seems little, but it represents a real gain for the operation”, he adds.

AMONG THE LARGEST – The Maran Astronomer docked at berth 214 of the Export Corridor. The operation is expected to last four days, depending on weather conditions. The vessel is among the largest bulk carriers ever received in the port of Paraná: it measures 292 meters long (loa), is 45 meters wide (beam) and has nine holds.

To complete the load, the bran comes from five different terminals, interconnected in the Export Corridor of the Port of Paranaguá: Cargill, Coamo I, Coamo II, Cotriguaçu and Silos Publicos.

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