After the announcement of a doubling of production at Carajás Serra Sul, Vale is already studying the construction of a port and railroad in Pará to meet the increase in demand

Yesterday (18/06), the mining company Vale announced that it is planning to build a railroad and a port in Pará to meet the possible expansion of the production capacity of Carajás Serra Sul, to 150 million tons per year.
With a length of 400 km, the railroad will connect the Estrada de Ferro Carajás (EFC) to the Port of Vila do Conde and will help with the difficult flow of the Port of Ponta da Madeira, in Maranhão, which is currently used by Vale to transport ore. of its largest mine.

A month ago, Vale announced studies to double production (after 2020) in Serra Sul de Carajás, in Pará, where the giant S11D mine is located, in Canaã dos Carajás (PA), to 150 million tons of iron ore per year.

Investments in Northern Brazil

The expansion of activities in northern Brazil by the mining company Vale was announced at a time when several of the company's operations are paralyzed in Minas Gerais due to the state of its dams.

The announcement also comes a month after Vale signed an agreement with the Chinese CCCC (China Communications Construction Company) for the implementation of a steel rolling mill in Marabá, also in Pará.

During the signing of the agreement, neither the Chinese nor Vale were able to inform where the steel to be used in the rolling mill would come from, which led the president of the National Institute of Steel Distributors (Inda), Carlos Loureiro, to state that he believes that the project would need to export from Vale's ore infrastructure.

It is speculated that the railroad that will be built should be used to bring the steel to be rolled and then export the product, but Vale has not clarified how this logistics will be.

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