PRIVATE TERMINALS CLOSED QUARTER WITH 5.7% MORE CARGO HANDLING

The third quarter of 2018 closed positive for the port sector. According to the Report of the Association of Private Port Terminals (ATP), between July and September the Private Use Terminals (TUP) had a positive variation of 5.7%, compared to the same period in 2017, when they moved 196.4 million tons, equivalent to 67% of the country’s total cargo. Data from the National Water Transport Agency (Antaq) also recorded the global increase (public and private ports) of 3.9%, totaling 295 million tons. In an economic impact analysis, in the third quarter, the country also achieved an increase of 11.4% in the Trade Flow (exports and imports), compared to the months of 2017, with an amount of US $ 63.4 billion . In the accumulated between January and September, the estimated surplus is US $ 41.8 billion, according to the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC), with US $ 177.1 billion in exports and US $ 135.3 billion in imports.
Among the exported goods that stood out with significant growth in the quarter are shredded soyabeans, with a 42% increase, crude oils, 97%, and cellulose, with 19% more. In the Association’s assessment, the signs of improvement and exit from the crisis are evident due to the warming of external demand and the recovery of commodity prices, reflected in the performance of a quantitative increase in the production of the main export items. According to ATP’s Annual Report 2018, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expects world economic growth to show an average growth of 3.8% over the past five years in port handling, the national capacity to meet external demand for mineral and agricultural commodities, cargo handling by waterway terminals should reach the mark of 1.128 million tons. Among the private terminals that stood out most in the period are the Maranhão Ponta da Madeira (+ 26%), Guaíba Island, Santa Catarina (+ 1%), Pecém, Ceará (+ 13%) and , in Rio de Janeiro, the Açu Port Operations (+ 6%) and Ilha D’Água terminals (+ 32%). In Antaq’s survey, the ten port facilities with the highest volume of cargo handling in the third quarter of 2018, five of them public and five private, totaled 186.4 million tons in the period, corresponding to 63% of the total.
Source: Portos e Navios