BRAZIL: PORT DEVELOPMENT
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Brazilian operators are not immune from the
global economic crisis, but they are still gearing
up for new investments
developments must take place and at the
moment these are being pegged back,
according to those new companies want-
ing to enter the market, by red tape and
the protectionist stance of Abratec, the
Association of Private Terminal operators
operating in public port areas, which rep-
resents 12 container terminal operators
in Brazil.
As frequently reported, Abratec is
fighting legal battles against the arrival of
new facilities on “green field” sites that
have not undergone a public tender proc-
ess, with Portonave being the initial bat-
tleground. However, not all the “big guns”
are share Abratec’s view (see also p24). a74
One auctioneering company believes that there
is scope for a third container terminal in the
Port of Itajaí area
valued from 1.6 to the (US) dollar to
around 2.45, but many countries are just
not buying things any more.”
Yet another for Itajaí?
Recently an auction house linked to the
Port of Navegantes has suggested that it
might be possible to establish yet another
private terminal on the right hand bank
of the Itajaí-Açu River, close to Portonave
Terminais Portuários Navegantes SA.
The area would have a 210m quay,
although alongside draught would be lim-
ited to 6.5m, but with the possibility of
later deepening this. It has been suggested SET FOR
that this area could be used as an exten-
sion to the existing port or function as a
retro-port area. The facility would be ad-
jacent to the BR-470 highway and rela-
tively close to the BR-101.
TOMORROW
As previously reported, major reme-
dial works have been carried out at Itajaí
after it was stricken by floods. Following
rapid progress by the Chinese-backed
dredging contractor, the port authority
(API) promised that the 10.5m draft that
the port complex had before the flood-
ing would return by May, if not before.
API’s commercial director Robert
Grantham said that the expansion plan
for Teconvi (APM Terminals), which suf-
fered particularly heavy damage, was mov-
ing ahead and that Teconvi would be op-
erating with two berths soon.
“The new berth, the so-called Berth
Zero, is nearly ready and that will then
give us five berths and more than 1000m
of berthing line. With two quayside gan-
tries to come and two more mobile har-
bour cranes to come, it will be quite a
formidable operation. We know there is
lots of competition, with Portonave across
the river and Itapoá to come, but we are
ready for it.”
But even with the existing terminals
expanding, Brazil will still need more
container capacity in a few years time as
many existing facilities are hemmed in by
surrounding city centres. This means new
Juice boost
A thirst for Brazilian orange juice around
the world is leading French multi-national
Louis Dreyfus Commodities (LDC) to
increase by nearly 300% the capacity of
its port terminal in Santos, the leading
port in South America.
LDC operates out of Terminal 30 in
the “Export Corridor” of the port and is
in the middle of a Reais50M
(US$22.42M) expansion programme,
which will see it move from a 70,000 m
2
site to a 200,000 m
2
site by the year 2012.
By the end of this year LDC expects
to be operating out of a 150,000 m
2
fa-
Konecranes sets the benchmark for improving the design of cranes and
cility, and is forecasting that by 2012 or-
components, and enhancing software for fl eet management. Our tradition
ange juice exports through the terminal of eco-friendly thinking is behind such advanced innovations as our Fuel
will double from the 200,000t forecast for
Saving System and electricity-fed cranes. Maintenance is a crucial part
this year.
A spokesman for LDC in Brazil said
of the whole package, ensuring the equipment continues to function
that the Brazilian government’s Reais1.4B
effi ciently. With Konecranes you are set for tomorrow’s demands.
national dredging programme or (PND)
was giving them the confidence to move
forward with a Reais550M investment in
their orange juice industry assets in Bra-
zil as a whole.
The extra draught in Santos, which is
scheduled to move to at least 14 m, will
allow bigger liquid bulk vessels to call and
www.konecranes.com
produce greater economies of scale. a74
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