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With Estimated Investment of R$ 6.6 Billion, the Offshore Port in RN Should Handle Around Four Million Tons of Salt per Year
To increase the amount of goods exported to other countries, especially sea salt, the government of Rio Grande do Norte intends to develop a project for the construction of an offshore port in the city of Porto do Mangue. The project will be executed in a Public-Private Partnership and has sparked the interest of Chinese investors, but it will take about five years to be completed.
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According to estimates from the State Secretariat for Economic Development (Sedec/RN), the new port in Rio Grande do Norte is expected to handle approximately four million tons of salt per year initially, with expectations to export other minerals such as iron, limestone, and feldspar. About R$ 6.6 billion will be invested in the project’s implementation.
For the Secretary of Sedec RN, Jaime Calado, such a port is a very large and costly project that will take another three to five years to be built, and according to him, a Working Group has already been formed to conduct studies and enable licensing, composed of the State Department of Infrastructure (SIN) and the Institute for Sustainable Development of the Environment (Idema), in addition to Sedec.
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There is a part of the license that will be on land because it corresponds to the boarding area, so it is state-owned. When the process is fully conceptualized, it will be up to Ibama for licensing. “We want an offshore port, which is in the sea, away from the coast,” the secretary informed.
Another Offshore Port in RN Already Exports Sea Salt Produced in the State
Port Ilha de Areia Branca, also located in RN, is an offshore port specialized in the flow of sea salt produced in the state, which accounts for 95% of Brazil’s production.
According to the Government of RN, the United States is one of the main countries interested in potiguar salt, as its high purity rate (99.88%) makes the potiguar product a great ally in melting the ice that covers American metropolises during the winter.
*Information via Tribuna do Norte
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