By Redacción PortalPortuario.cl
@PortalPortuario
Three port terminals in the northern and northeastern states of Brazil will receive R $ 106 million in private investments for improvements and modernization in the coming years.
This is the result of the tendering of areas in the ports of Santana (AP), Fortaleza (CE) and Salvador (BA) carried out by the Ministry of Infrastructure, through the National Waterway Transport Agency (Antaq).
Respectively, the auctions were won by the companies Intermarítima Portos y Logística, for the management of the SSD09 terminal (Salvador); Tergran – Terminals of Grains of Fortaleza Ltda, for MUC01 (Mucuripe); and Caramuru Alimentos, who took the MCP02, in Santana. The areas of the capital cities of Amapá and Ceará had unique proposals.
As the Federal Government’s concession model foresees that the company’s offer is applied to investments in the concession area, the total value in the capital of Bahia reaches R $ 49 million, very close to the operating expenses of Companhia de Docas da Bahia (Codeba). Three companies presented offers on the spot, the winning amount being R $ 32 million, a premium of 3,199,999,900.00%.
After the tender, the forecast is that the contracts will be signed in the fourth quarter of this year. The Port of Santana terminal will have a 25-year concession contract and an estimated investment of R $ 41.3 million. With a movement of 4.3 million tons / year, mainly soybean bran, which represents 11% of the port’s “solid vegetables in bulk” profile.
The Mucuripe area, in Fortaleza, will have the administration granted for the same period and will receive investments of R $ 47.7 million. In this terminal, the unloading of wheat represents 70.4% of the solid bulk operations, equivalent to 963,752 tons (2013 data), imported mainly from the United States, Argentina and Uruguay.
The Salvador terminal contract will have a 10-year extension with an investment of R $ 17.73 million. Of the total produced by the state of Bahia for export, 65% of the volumes are shipped through the Salvador and Aratu-Candeias Port Complex, and the state has a strong industrial profile, mainly through the Camaçari Petrochemical Complex.
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