The resources needed for the recovery of the Port of Recife, which nowadays works with reduced draft, can finally be released by the Federal Government. There are more than R $ 100 million that can unlock this year the dredging and recovery works of the wharf, expanding the port movement of sugar and grains, and will be added to a concession plan of the State Government, which wants to transfer part of the port terminals to the private initiative to expand the investments in the anchorage. “Of the R $ 72 million from dredging, there are R $ 50 million in LOA 2019 (Annual Federal Budget Law). In addition, we have R $ 27 million of remainder to pay from 2016 for the recovery of the quay zero to quay six. And there is another R $ 28.4 million for this work in the LOA “, explains the president of Porto of Recife, Carlos Vilar, who returned to the anchorage, after a passage by Suape, with the second step of the Paulo Câmara Government, announced this week. “I return to resume the dredging project and maintain an interaction with Suape, which will be directed by Leonardo Cerquinho,” says Vilar, admitting that unlocking this project is essential. It is that the draft of the port, initially of 12 meters of depth, today varies between 9.3 and 8.8 meters due to the silting. And that limits the capacity of ships: every meter less than draft represents a fall of four tons of cargo per ship. “The governor will talk to the Federal Government to do this as soon as possible,” Vilar said, explaining that since the resources are federal, the work will be tendered by the Ministry of Infrastructure. For this, however, Paulo Câmara will also need to make a request for budget supplementation or articulate with the federal bank an amendment that guarantees the $ 22 million that are missing for the service. With the dredging and the recovery of the wharf, the Port of Recife will have 12 meters of draft – to the sugar terminal and the grain terminal, which always operated with 10 meters of depth. “The recovery provides for the increase of these berths, so they can receive ships of up to 55K tons,” explains Vilar, noting that the project has already been approved by the former Ministry of Transport. “Only the signature of the compromise agreement between the State and the Union is missing,” Vilar reports.
Source: Portos e Navios