In the first 31 days of the year, the ports of Paranaguá and Antonina handled 3.44 million tons of cargo so that January was a month of highs.
As soon as there was an increase in general cargo and liquid bulk, both import and export. The terminals in Paraná are betting on multi-modality.
Next, they were highlighted in the shipment of sugar in bags, containers, vegetable oil and petroleum derivatives, south from the country.
According to data released this Monday (10), by the public company Portos do Paraná, more than 55% of the movement (1.9 million tons) is still solid bulk.
Since, the biggest increases are in shipments and landings of liquid bulk (25% compared to the previous year) and general cargo (increase of 19%).
According to Luiz Fernando Garcia, CEO of Portos do Paraná, since it has the capacity and structure to handle different types of cargo.
With agility and efficiency, it ensures that the port maintains its activity, jobs and investments, without depending on a single type of product.
From the same point of view, multi-modality was essential to reach the historic mark of 53.2 million tons handled in 2019.
Although it was a year with a lot of rain, exchange rate variations and a lot of dispute in the international market, which had a direct impact on soybean exports.
Productivity
With a positive effect in the first month of 2020, the ports of Paraná handled 610.37 thousand tons of liquid bulk, after the month of the previous year there were 487,835 tons.
The movement of vegetable oils, mainly soybean, was 27,548 tons in the month of January. The volume is 6% larger than recorded.
Because of the strong export that we had at the beginning of the year, different from previous years, is that the price of the product in the Argentine market.
The Argentines, who are our main competitor in exports to the Asian market, were higher than the Brazilian price. It ends up, then, looking for the Brazilian market.
The main consumers of vegetable oil exported by the Port of Paranaguá are China and India, however the expectation for the year is a reduction.
The reduction in the export of vegetable oils, motivated by the increase in the blending of biodiesel in diesel oil, as provided for in a national decree (from 11 to 12%).
The expected reduction, however, does not bother the operator, that is, the expected reduction in soybean oil exports is in line with the expected increase.
The ports of Paraná handled 917,855 tons of general cargo in January, that is, the volume is 19% higher than that recorded in the first month of 2019.
