Port of Recife in the expectation of increasing 100% the movement of corn

Good winds continue to blow in the cargo handling of the Port of Recife. On Saturday (27.04), the Brazilian-flagged Norsul Crateus, with 32,500 tonnes of maize, docked at the Recife port. The grain that is normally produced in the Midwest and in some states of the Northeast of Brazil and arrives in Pernambuco by road, this year will be imported from Argentina and will arrive by ship to Recife. Argentine corn will be destined for poultry and feed mills in Pernambuco and Paraíba. The vessel will be the first of an agreement signed between Porto do Recife SA and a pool of three companies, two from Pernambuco (Mauricéa Alimentos, Notaro Alimentos) and one from Paraíba (Guaraves Alimentos), to import, through the anchorage, about 200 thousand tons of corn.

"Last year we moved 59,942 tonnes of corn. We were approached by poultry farmers in February of this year with the import proposal. Negotiation has advanced and the first ship coming from Ramallo, Argentina, has already docked. The schedule is that a ship arrive like this volume (32,500) every 60 days", points out the president of Recife Port, Carlos do Rêgo Vilar. The ship will spend six days at the berth, unloading the product.

In the Northeast, corn is produced in Bahia, Piauí, Maranhão and Sergipe, and the harvests of these states represent 85% of the corn that supplies the poultry sector in Pernambuco. "There are three main factors that lead us to import corn: low production in the Northeast producing states; the increase in the price of grain, in the off-season and the difficulty of road transport that we have at the beginning of the harvest", explains Marcondes Farias, owner of Maurice Food.