A 9.7-kilometer section in the Suape Port Industrial Complex between the BR-101 and PE-09 roads and the eastern part of Tatuoca Island will be the subject of studies to modernize the executive project of the port’s rail branch and its link to the Sertão Railway. The rail branch will allow for constructing an ore terminal on Ilha de Cocaia, which will handle production from reserves in Curral Novo, Piauí, only 703 kilometers away from the port. The investment in this executive project is R$ 5,270,000.00. The Sertão Railway is an alternative to the Transnordestina, which began construction in 2006 and remains unfinished because of successive delays in implementing the project whose company in charge is TLSA. The authorization for the construction of the new branch was signed by the then-Minister of Infrastructure Tarcísio de Freitas on December 10, 2021. The private sector will carry out the project’s implementation at an estimated cost of R$ 5.7 billion.
Source: Datamar News