General Description
Location: The port of Suape is situated 40km S of Recife.
General overview: The Port of Suape is placed in a priveleged location, it is linked to over 160 ports globally. One of the leading liquid bulk and cargo coasting movement in the nation. Suape disposes a 785,000m² customs area, offering container and general cargo terminals.
Terminals:
- Containers and General Cargo
- Fedex (Area: 40,000m² // Capacity: 600 TEUs)
- Localfrio (Area: 91,000m² // Capacity: 8,000 TEUs)
- Tecon Suape (Area: 380,000m² // Capacity: 40,000 TEUs)
- Liquid Bulk
- Bunge Alimentos (Oil & Margerine)
- Copagaz Distribuidora de Gás (Storage: 350t)
- Decal Brasil (Storage: 156,000m3)
- Liquigás Distribuidora (Storage: 720t)
- Minasgás (Supergasbras) (Storage: 382t)
- Pandenor Importação e Exportação (Storage: 122,000m3)
- Pool de combustíveis (Storage: 90,000m3)
- Terminais Marítimos de Pernambuco (Storage: 58,000m3)
- Terminal Químico de Aratu (Tequimar) (Storage: 58,000m3)
- Transpetro (Storage: 87,000m3)
- Ultragaz (Storage: 400t)
- Solid Bulk (For Refined Sugar)
(Area: 72,500m²)
Internal Port
- Pier 1 (Containers, General Cargo, Project Cargo, Ro/Ro, bagged sugar)
- Pier 2 & 3 (Tecon Suape)
- Pier 4 (General Cargo, Project Cargo, Steel Products, Bulk Wheat, Ro/Ro)
- Pier 5 (General and Solid Bulk Cargo)
External Port
- Liquid Bulk Pier - PGL 1 (Vessels 45,000DWT)
4 Dolphins with access to a pipeline
- Liquid Bulk Pier - PGL 2 (Vessels 90,000DWT)
Operated by National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (12 mechanical arms)
- Liquid Bulk Pier - PGL 3A (Vessels 110,000DWT)
7 Loading arms for Aframax
- Liquid Bulk Pier - PGL 3B (Vessels 170,000DWT)
5 Loading arms for Aframax & Suezmax
- Multiple Use Pier - CMU (Vessels 80,000DWT)
2 Shiploaders for petroleum coke
- Floating GLP Tank (Vessels 45,000DWT) (Refrigerated 75,000m³)
Handling Equipment
- 2 Super Post-Panamax Portainers
- 2 Post-Panamax Portainers (65t)
- 10 Reach Stackers (45t)
- 11 Trucks
- 14 RTG’s Transtainers (41t) & (35t)
- 520 Reefer Outlets (Frozen Containers)
Traffic figures: Approx. 3,757,200t of cargo, 300,000TEU and 600 vessels handled annually.
Load line zone: Tropical.