Important and strategic locations for the disposal of products and other merchandise, the three State Ports administered by the Docks Company of the State of Bahia (CODEBA) – Salvador, Ilheus and Aratu-Candeias – registered significant indexes in 2018, even with mishaps such as strike of the truck drivers, in the month of May. Together, they handled $ 16.2 billion. According to the Company, of this total, 75% went through the ports of Salvador, Aratu-Candeias and Ilhéus and 25% moved by private terminals (basically for raw material with low added value) or by air, a volume considered small. According to Codeba, the commercial values handled in public ports represent, historically, about 75% of the state’s trade flow. With regard to cargo volume, the ports managed by the Company totaled 11.1 million tons in 2018, a decrease of 6% over the previous year (11.8 million tons). The justification for the fall was the volume of cargo left to move in the Port of Aratu-Candeias, the most affected by the crisis in the period of the truck drivers’ stoppage. Among the main cargoes in Codeba’s ports, a little more than 6.5 million tons were in the port of Aratu-Candeias. Petrochemical naphtha, fertilizers and liquid chemicals were the main products. Salvador’s equipment moved almost 4.5 million tons of pulp, petrochemicals, wheat and food. Cacao was the busiest product in the port of Ilhéus, among the 211,477 tons in general.
Source: Codeba