Coruripe Sugar Mill, Producer of Sugar and Ethanol, Together with Logistics Company Rumo, Will Invest in Road-Rail Terminal to Increase Production Flow
Coruripe Sugar Mill, producer of sugar and ethanol, laid the foundation stone for a road-rail terminal in Iturama, in the State of Minas Gerais, on the last 29th, which was developed to facilitate the flow of 2 million tons of VHP sugar per year to the Port of Santos, in São Paulo. The investment in partnership with the railway operator Rumo is R$ 70 million.
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According to Francisco Vital, Commercial Director of Coruripe Sugar Mill, in addition to saving transportation costs, the project of the only road-rail terminal in Minas connected to the Norte-Sul also provides environmental benefits due to the unloading of highways in the region. Of the planned two million tons, at least 75% are transported by truck to the coast of São Paulo.
Vital says that “This will be a high-turnover terminal, with very high loading capacity to make the asset – train and wagons – very well utilized. It will bring development to the entire region because, in addition to transporting our sugar, it will also carry third-party sugar produced in Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, and Goiás (within a radius of up to 500 kilometers). Previously, a small part of this production was flowed through the Fernandópolis (SP) terminal, but Iturama, besides being much closer, has greater capacity. It could handle up to 6 million tons soon.”
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The goal is for the terminal to start operating in March 2021, but the manager bets that the first shipment will leave Minas Gerais in January. The new unit is located at KM 15 of BR-497 highway and will have high-speed receiving and loading capability, and is equipped with a rail yard – circular area for train maneuvering – that will expedite operations.
The project has a total estimated area of 20 hectares and will be equipped with two dumpers, a warehouse with a static capacity of 40,000 tons, and a wagon loading pit, which can load 1,500 tons of trucks per hour.

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