General Description
Location: Terminal del Guazú is located on the left coast of Parana Guazú River , at Villa Paranacito Municipality area , in the S part of the province of Entre Ríos.
General overview: Del Guazu is a private multipurpose terminal destined to the reception, storage, loading and unloading of merchandise of all types of cereals, among which are: wheat, corn, soybeans, sunflower, rice and its derivatives.
The multipurpose port terminal of Guazú has the main infrastructure facilities which include:
-2 concrete docks, 200/145 meters long, 37 feet of self-drilling draft.
-2 boarding lines with a capacity of 1,200 tons per/hour of cereal.
-2 storage tanks in cells of 35,000 tons and 1 storage tank with capacity of 15,000 tons. Totally 85,000 tons.
-1 storage tank of 4,000 sq.m. for general cargos.
-2 truck unloading platform with a capacity of 300 t.p.h.
Grain (wheat, soybean and corn) and by-products are loaded via two moving towers stepped on the pier, with loading arms; no shifting necessary. Loading rates for grains 2×1200 TPH, when loading from both storage cells. Also bagged rice (each 50 Kg) can be loaded with ship´s gear. Pipelines (1×8″ and 2×6″) are laid at pier, for oil or chemicals operations from and to Voxen S.A., near Del Guazú premises.
At the premises, 2 grain discharge platforms for trucks, at 600 TPH rate; and one rail-wagon discharge platform, can unload 2 wagons simultaneously at 600TPH rate.
Load line zone: Summer.