The government expects that R$ 420 million will be invested in ports in Pará, where an auction for the lease of six port terminals was held, the main purpose of which is to move fuel and liquid bulk.

The established rules were that the minimum amount of the grant began with R$ 1,00 and ended up ending with R$ 447,64 million raised with the grant. The auction was held at B3, the São Paulo Stock Exchange, with several companies interested in the terminals and ended in less than 02 hours. The contracts have terms of 15 to 25 years, where they can be renewed until completing 70 years.

With a bid of BRL 40 million, the first block was acquired by the Latitude consortium, comprising Ipiranga and Petróleo Sabbá. With an area of ​​more than 46 thousand m2 called BEL02A, which has a physical structure for the terminal's storage of almost 42 thousand tons and which is expected to invest around R$ 15 over the next 48,3 years of lease, XNUMX million reais.

On the same day, another 05 blocks were auctioned, where the second block, called BEL 02B, was acquired by the company Petróleo Sabbá/Socopa Corretora Paulista, where it offered the grant value of more than 60 million reais.

The third block, “Bel 04” was acquired by Ipiranga with a bid of BRL 87,121 million, the fourth “BEL 08” by Petrobras Distribuidora with more than BRL 50 million, the fifth “BEL 09” by Transpetro and the last by Terminal Química de aaratu (Tequimar) with a bid of R$ 180,5 million.

With less than 30 days, this is the second port auction, with an expected investment of R$ 199 million, the government collected R$ 219,52 million. Where the government auctioned 4 port areas, one in Espírito Santo and three in Paraíba.

The next auctions do not yet have a scheduled date, but are already being analyzed by the government. The forecast is that the edits for three more terminals will be released, two in the Port of Santos, in São Paulo, and another in the Port of Paranaguá, in Paraná. Approximately R$ 400 million in investment forecast.