According to the MME, the terminals at the Port of Santos will receive investments of R$ 420 million and should be auctioned in August this year
The government of Brazil concessions program has not stopped! The notices for the pulp terminal auctions in the Port of Santos (SP): STS14 and STS14A, were published yesterday (08) by the Ministry of Infrastructure – MME. In addition to these, another 15 port terminals will be auctioned this year by the Government.
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The contracts should generate private investments of 420 million reais in the Port of Santos. The concession contract will last for 25 years and the forecast is that the assets will be auctioned on August 28th.
This is the 1st major milestone for the implementation of a new logic for optimizing the use of areas. The Port of Santos will also benefit from an expansion of railroad accesses, as pulp transport at these terminals will be 100% on rails.
With the concession of port areas by the Santos Porto Authority, Brazil can only win! The Port of Santos is already one of the largest pulp producers in the world and will have its cargo handling capacity increased to 5 million tons per year. Cellulose is the product with the highest annual growth rate!
“The publication of the notices is the first major milestone for the implementation of a new logic for optimizing the use of areas in the Port of Santos. The Port's new strategy is the clustering of operations, with gains in scale by concentrating operations of the same vocation in specific areas of the port”, assesses the National Secretary for Ports and Waterway Transport, Diogo Piloni.
In addition, he maintains that, with the structural improvements foreseen in the rail accesses that will be implemented, there will be greater integration with the lines of the railway concessionaires that connect to the port, which have been the object of billionaire investments. “The pulp transport at these terminals will be 100% on rails”, he emphasizes.
TERMINALS – The STS14 terminal, which has an area of 44,5 square meters, will be serviced by two berths located on the Macuco public pier, with a total length of about 1.000 meters. The future leaseholder will have to make investments, such as building a new warehouse and purchasing overhead cranes to facilitate unloading by rail of a composition of 67 wagons with 88 tons each, in a maximum of 8,5 hours, for example.
The winner of the STS14A terminal, with an area of 45,1 square meters, in addition to building a new warehouse and making investments that allow for the same rail unloading as in the other terminal, will also have to pay for equipment that allows shipments to be shipped from the warehouse to the pier. , of at least 25 thousand tons per day.
PULP – Brazil is one of the largest pulp producers in the world, which is the product with the highest annual growth rate in the Port of Santos. After the investments in the terminals, the handling of this type of cargo should jump to five million tons per year.
Check below the announcements of the auctions of the Port of Santos
