ANP authorizes the operation of the liquid bulk terminal through the Port of Santos, located in the Port of Itaqui. The terminal has a nominal capacity of 20 thousand square meters.

The Port of Santos obtained authorization from the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) to operate its first liquid bulk terminal, called TGL-3, located in Porto do Itaqui, in the state of Maranhão. Porto is a distribution hub for oil products for the Northeast, Midwest and North regions and has great potential for expansion with a focus on agribusiness.

Liquid bulk terminal will have 20 thousand square meters.

With a nominal capacity of 20,000 m³, distributed in seven tanks for storing diesel, anhydrous ethanol, gasoline and biodiesel, the terminal in Porto do Itaqui has connections with maritime, road, pipeline and rail modes and is one of the three terminals purchased by Port of Santos in an auction held last year, a greenfield, with the start of activities scheduled for 2026 and two brownfields that were already in operation.

The Port of Santos says that, after the terminal at Porto do Itaqui, it will continue working to obtain the license to start operations for its second brownfield terminal, TGL 1, and also on the project for the third area acquired.

Together, these grants have already totaled R$ 157.3 million. The term for each lease is two decades, with the possibility of successive extensions up to a limit of 70 years. The three areas will total 201,000 cubic meters of nominal capacity, after planned investments in capacity expansion, where CapEx can exceed R$500 million.

Port of Santos also receives ammonium sulfate ship

In addition to the news about the liquid bulk terminal at Porto do Itaqui, the Port of Santos recently had the arrival of a ship with fertilizers that is 229 meters long. The vessel left the city of Huanghua, China, on July 12 with 82,500 tons of fertilizer.

After landing at the Port of Santos, the cargo that arrived on the coast of São Paulo on the 27th of the last month, must follow through railroads to the Midwest region, the largest producer of soybeans and corn in the country, which depends on these imported inputs. According to Wilson Sons, in a statement, the charterer of the ammonium sulfate vessel is Allied Harvest, represented by AgriLaf in Brazil.

Discover the Port of Santos.

The Port of Santos is an estuarine port, located in the municipalities of Santos, Cubatão and Guarujá, all in the state of SP, being the main port in the country and also the largest port complex in Latin America, with a wide variety of cargo terminals. for various products, which handle liquid, solid bulk, general cargo, containers and passengers.

The port's economic influence area concentrates about 67% of the Brazilian GDP, reaching mainly the states of São Paulo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul. About 60% of international trade or the state of São Paulo are shipped or unloaded through the Port of Santos.

Historically, the Port Complex accounts for more than 25%, or a quarter, of the movement of the Brazilian trade balance, and is the largest exporting port of sugar, coffee beans or orange juice in the world. Other important cargoes are soybeans, corn, salt, wheat, vehicles, paper, alcohol and other liquid bulk.

Source: www.petrosolgas.com.br