Of the 34.89 million tons of cargo that arrived or left the Port of Paranaguá between January and July of this year, 6.72 million were transported in railway cars. The volume corresponds to 19.3% of the total. The use of railways to transport products during the first seven months of this year is 29.5% higher than in the same period in 2020. Last year, of the 33.3 million tons imported and exported, 14.9% ( 4.97 million tons) were transported via train. “Considering the monthly movement, the increase is even greater. Last July, 20.8% of the cargo arrived or left the ports of Paraná by rail”, says the CEO of Portos do Paraná, Luiz Fernando Garcia. This represents 1.2 million tons, of the almost 5.8 million moved in the last month. Corn, soy, bran, fertilizers, petroleum derivatives, containerized cargo, wheat, and sugar are the products that arrived or left the Port of Paranaguá via rail so far this year. The soy and sugar shipments were the largest.
Source: Datamar News