Codesp plans to move pulp in Libra Terminais area

According to the Santos Port Authority – Codesp – an area of 180 square meters of the Port of Santos, between the districts Macuco and Ponta da Praia, occupied by the Libra Terminais, is available for transitional contract to store and export pulp.

The port authority director, Casemiro Tércio Carvalho, stated that space will be used for pulp handling.

The Libra Group stopped loading and unloading cargoes in the area on April 28. Since then, the company has only operated with bonded warehouses.

Due to a court decision, the Libra Group was prevented from returning the terminal to Codesp, since the return was considered incompatible with the judicial recovery process. The area will be available for auction on May 2020.

The president of Codesp said that the area has already been visited by professionals from the Planning and Logistics Company (EPL), the Investment Partnership Program (PPI) and the Ministry of Infrastructure.

Based on the data collected, studies will be carried out on the area so that a new concession can be made possible. The work is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

Despite this, Carvalho says that a transitional contract can be made before a future auction. “Whatever we get from a transition contract to generate jobs right away, let’s sign it.” And he remembers: “The transitional contract is possible, but it does not depend only on the port authority, but also on the pulp trade and the National Waterways Transports Agency [Antaq]. The goal is to have this contract signed in the second semester.”

Interested companies

The CEO of Codesp says there are companies that are already interested in the area, especially when it is said that Libra Terminais at Santos will be a cluster dedicated to pulp. With this, it will be possible to load pulp from different companies on the same vessel.

The following DataLiner graph shows Libra Terminais export-import trends since 2009:

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