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On 28 July 2020, the Ministry of Infrastructure (MINFRA) ratified the new Development and Zoning Plan (PDZ, in Portuguese) of Santos, Brazil’s most important port complex, to replace the PDZ of 2006 and provide a more efficient cargo flow, taking advantage of the new jurisdictional limits of the port recently approved.
The new PDZ was approved by MINFRA through Ordinance 1,620, published in the Official Gazette of 29 July 2020. The Plan, devised by the Santos Port Authority (SPA), is set to enable the modernisation and strategical planning of occupation of public areas within the organised port of Santos for the next two decades. MINFRA expects that, by 2040, the port complex on the coast of the State of São Paulo will have increased its throughput by 50%, reaching about 240.6 million metric tons of cargo handled.
Under the new Plan, the port should capture all cargoes moved within its geographic area of influence and consolidate areas for cargo clustering. Container handling facilities are expected to grow 64%, from the current 5.4 million TEU to 8.7 million TEU, driven by a new dedicated terminal in the Saboó region.
Other types of cargoes traditionally handled in the port complex of Southeast Brazil will also benefit from the increase in port capacity. These include agricultural products (up to 37%), liquid bulks (+ 40%), minerals and fertilisers (+ 74%), wood pulp (+ 49%), as well as two berths for direct discharge of solid bulks in the regions of Alemoa and Saboó.
In line with the government’s plan to change the Brazilian transportation matrix to more environmentally friendly modals, the capacity of the railroads should be increased to 86 million tonnes, bringing the share of the rail modal in the flow of cargo to 40% of the total moved.
Investments are expected to be in the region of BRL 10 billion over the next five to ten years, divided into new (BRL 2.5 billion) and future lease contractors (from 2011, around BRL 5.2 billion), and road traffic access works (BRL 2 billion). About 60,400 jobs should be created to work on the building of the planned port facilities and structures, including new job positions that will increase the port workforce by 15%, between terminal employees and casual port worker
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