Copersucar will have three more multimodal terminals for sugar transportation up to2015, two in the State of São Paulo and one in Minas Gerais, affirmed the Company’s CEO, Paulo Roberto de Souza. According to him, these terminals will be like Ribeirão Preto’s (SP) terminals, inaugurated today, and will be connected to the rail network for commodities transportation to the Port of Santos (SP).
It was invested in the terminal, completely remolded, US$16.51 million for transporting 1.5 million tons of sugar a year, ten times more than the previous capacity, with operations performed by Ferrovia Centro-Atlântica (FCA). These investments make part of the US$1.10 billion that Copersucar will invest up to 2015 – US$165.10 million for the current crop (2011/2012) – in sugar and ethanol logistics.
In the terminal located in the countryside of São Paulo was built a loading system for 500 tons of sugar/hour in comparison with the current 120 tons and a rail deviation of 2.8 kilometers of stretch in a 140-thousand square kilometer area. The operations will reduce the loading time of cars from two hours to ten minutes.
According to Souza, terminal operations will be exclusively for sugar. Ethanol’s operations will be performed by Lógum, Copersucar’s partner Company, which participates of ethanol pipeline construction and operations for fuel transportation via Tietê-Paraná waterway.
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