From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – The Port of Rio Grande, located in the city of the same name, in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, should see record high activity in 2007. This is what the figures for the first four months of this year indicate. During the period, there was an 8.7% increase in activity compared with the same months last year, with 6,565,722 tonnes transported.
Shipments of grain and ores, known as solid bulk cargoes, grew the most during the period, totalling 3.5 million tonnes and a 20% increase. In this segment, cereal exports accounted for 55.3% of total throughput. Totalling 1.940 million tonnes, cereal shipments increased by 27.7%.
Highlights in the segment included maize, which saw a 674.4% increase, totalling 432,300 tonnes, soy grain, which rose by 42% to reach 677,500 tonnes, rice, with an 11.7% increase and 83,200 tonnes shipped, and soy chaff, which increased by 9.2% to reach 482,900 tonnes. The information were provided by the government of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
