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Port of Rio de Janeiro enters new era of shipping with deeper draft
DREDGING at the port of Rio de Janeiro is expected to be completed around Christmas when the facility will be able to handle ships of 10,000 to 12,000 TEU, positioning it to build on recently won services.
The port now has a draft of 13.3 metres at low tide that will go to 13.7 metres when dredging work is completed, according to IHS Media.
"Now, with this improved draft, we can attract bigger vessels and a number of extra services become well within our reach," said Luiz Carneiro, the CEO for the Multi-Rio container terminal.
"Container movement has also fallen in Rio because of the crisis, but there are positive signs in the economy now, so things should pick up."
Traffic at Multi-Rio fell six per cent from 143,685 TEU year on year in the first three quarters to 134,613 TEU, but with October's provisional figure of 11,830 TEU, the terminal is on track to handle 188,000 TEU for the full year, Mr Carneiro said.
MSC recently began calling the terminal on its newly enhanced North Europe service, the NWC 1 operated with Hapag-Lloyd and Zim Integrated Shipping Services.
More MSC services could be on the way, as the carrier's terminal arm Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), has signed a joint venture agreement with Multi-Rio parent company Multiterminais that promises to "explore part of the container terminal's facility in Rio de Janeiro".
Details of the deal are still unclear, but some sources say that around 50 per cent of Multi-Rio's berthing capacity will be given over to MSC vessels. MSC does not currently have any transpacific service calling in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro.
"It has been more than a strong rumour in shipping circles in Sao Paulo, Santos and Rio de Janeiro that MSC was lining up something with Multi-Rio," said a local consultant.
The port now has a draft of 13.3 metres at low tide that will go to 13.7 metres when dredging work is completed, according to IHS Media.
"Now, with this improved draft, we can attract bigger vessels and a number of extra services become well within our reach," said Luiz Carneiro, the CEO for the Multi-Rio container terminal.
"Container movement has also fallen in Rio because of the crisis, but there are positive signs in the economy now, so things should pick up."
Traffic at Multi-Rio fell six per cent from 143,685 TEU year on year in the first three quarters to 134,613 TEU, but with October's provisional figure of 11,830 TEU, the terminal is on track to handle 188,000 TEU for the full year, Mr Carneiro said.
MSC recently began calling the terminal on its newly enhanced North Europe service, the NWC 1 operated with Hapag-Lloyd and Zim Integrated Shipping Services.
More MSC services could be on the way, as the carrier's terminal arm Terminal Investment Limited (TIL), has signed a joint venture agreement with Multi-Rio parent company Multiterminais that promises to "explore part of the container terminal's facility in Rio de Janeiro".
Details of the deal are still unclear, but some sources say that around 50 per cent of Multi-Rio's berthing capacity will be given over to MSC vessels. MSC does not currently have any transpacific service calling in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro.
"It has been more than a strong rumour in shipping circles in Sao Paulo, Santos and Rio de Janeiro that MSC was lining up something with Multi-Rio," said a local consultant.
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