Brazil Terminal Portuário (BTP) will increase its operational capacity at the Port of Santos by 40% over the next three years. Nearly BRL 1.9 billion will disbursed for acquiring electrical equipment and automating gates to streamline truck access to the container terminal. The investment package, agreed with the government as part of the 20-year lease renewal until 2047, also includes the company’s goal to make the terminal green by 2030. “All the equipment purchased will be electric from now on. Our RTGs (rubber-tired gantry cranes) and terminal tractor trucks are diesel-powered, but as we replace the fleet, we will have electric equipment. Our ambition is to be a carbon-neutral terminal from 2030,” said BTP CEO Ricardo Arten. The company’s terminal is located in the Alemoa region on the Right Bank of the Port of Santos.
Sources: A Tribuna/Datamar News