Billion-Dollar Mineral Terminal Project at Suape Port Will Create Thousands of Jobs and Enable Completion of Transnordestina

Written by Junior Aguiar

Published on 27/09/2022 at 11:17

O terminal de minérios ficará dentro dos limites da Zona Industrial Portuária (ZIP)

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Government of Pernambuco, Port Complex Board, and Representatives of the Company That Will Manage the Project Gathered to Make the Announcement

A solid mineral bulk terminal will begin to be installed at the Port of Suape starting in 2025, generating around 3,000 direct and indirect jobs during construction. The port complex is located in the municipality of Cabo de Santo Agostinho, in the Metropolitan Region of Recife. The area designated for the iron ore project is 51.8 hectares. During operation, over 400 more jobs should also be created. The announcement of the project, which will cost R$ 1.5 billion, was jointly made this week by the Government of Pernambuco, the board of the Port of Suape, and representatives of the company Planalto Piauí Participações e Empreendimentos S.A., part of the Bemisa Brasil Operação Mineral S.A, a mining company authorized by the Federal Government to implement and explore the Sertão Railway (EF233), along the 717 kilometers between Curral Novo (PI) and the port of Pernambuco.

The terminal will be located within the limits of the Port Industrial Zone (ZIP), on the Island of Cocaia, with an estimate to handle 13.5 million tons of iron ore per year. The railway will allow for the export of the product that Planalto Piauí Participações e Empreendimentos S.A. explores in the municipality of Curral Novo. There, there is a deposit with 800 million tons of iron, the largest mineral reserve in that state and one of the largest in Brazil.

The Government of Pernambuco estimates that the terminal will have a receiving and shipping capacity of 50,000 tons of iron ore per day, capable of storing 780,000 tons of the product in the yard. Once completed, the project is expected to generate R$ 617.2 million in port fees and a total of R$ 184.5 million from leasing the area for 30 years, which is the time established by the contract between the government, the business group, and the Port of Suape.

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How the Project Can Enable the Completion of Transnordestina

Bemisa has authorization from the Ministry of Infrastructure to implement the railway, but the section from Piauí to Custódia has several segments constructed by Transnordestina Logística S/A (TLSA). The company was in charge of the railway works, which began in 2006 and remains unfinished to this day.

The TLSA is a private company of the CSNTLSA Group, which has already announced that it will only complete the section that connects Transnordestina to the Port of Pecém, in Ceará. The section that would reach the Port of Suape has been abandoned.

The controversy continues to generate debate, as part of the business community argues that Bemisa and TLSA should come to an agreement to complete the remaining section of Transnordestina in Pernambuco. However, Bemisa states that it will build a new railway. The group is one of the largest in Brazil in the exploration and export of minerals.

Since 2019, the company has been negotiating with the Government of Pernambuco about the terminal at the Port of Suape to be able to transport minerals along the Pernambuco coast. On September 2, the company presented its interest in ensuring the railway to the Ministry of Infrastructure.

“Pernambuco has always welcomed us very well. We have been discussing this possibility for several years,” said the CEO of Bemisa,

Augusto Lopes – CEO of Bemisa

With high expectations for job creation, the president of the Port of Suape, Roberto Gusmão, highlights that the arrival of the minerals terminal is an important milestone for the region’s economy.

“We are the main port in the Northeast and a cargo hub, currently distributing through road and cabotage modes. With the railway network, the port will be able to handle everything from soybeans from Matopiba, in the region between the states of Tocantins, Bahia, Piauí, and Maranhão, to fruits from São Francisco and gypsum from the Sertão do Araripe, in addition to facilitating the movement of loads such as fuel, cooking gas, containerized cargo, vehicles, among other goods, consolidating its integration into the region’s logistics network.”

Roberto Gusmão – President of the Port of Suape

Billion-Dollar Mineral Terminal Project at Suape Port Will Create Thousands of Jobs and Enable Completion of Transnordestina

Government of Pernambuco, Port Complex Board, and Representatives of the Company That Will Manage the Project Gathered to Make the Announcement

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