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involve more than 30 conditions required by environmental
permits. These measures include conserving
natural resources, social/environmental and archeological
issues, environmental quality, and programs
directly related to the work on the terminal building, in
addition to social responsibility initiatives undertaken in
the communities surrounding the port terminal.
Pedro Brito (left) during a visit to the
jobsite at the Port of Santos. With him,
from left, are Rodrigo Leite, CFO of
Embraport, Alexandrino de Alencar,
Responsible for Business Development
and Institutional Support at Odebrecht
Infraestrutura, and Project Director
Henrique Marchesi, also from Odebrecht
Infraestrutura: essential investments in
port logistics
Workers building the
Embraport Terminal:
Acreditar Program is
playing an important
role in hiring
and qualifying
professionals to
work on the project
Ethanol pipelines
Despite its maturity and the prospect of becoming
the flagship for Brazilian exports, the ethanol industry
still relies on a logistics system that primarily uses
trucks to transport the product. Therefore, business
leaders have decided to invest in a plan to modernize
transportation logistics, a strategy that will require
investments of roughly BRL 7 billion.
Logum, a company established in March 2011, is
the result of the efforts of six shareholders (Odebrecht
TransPort, Petrobras, Cosan, Coersucar, Camargo
Corrêa and Uniduto) and the consolidation of three
projects. Alberto Guimarães, President of Logum,
points out that the ethanol industry has been investing
in technical productivity for three decades, but has
done little to improve its logistics strategies. In his
opinion, it is increasingly urgent to do just that, as sugarcane
production is expanding into the interior of the
country and getting farther away from major centers
of consumption.
The Logum project involves transporting 22 million
cu.m per year of ethanol produced in the states
of São Paulo, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul and Minas
Gerais through 1,300 kilometers of pipelines that are
currently under construction and will be connected
to a 600-km network of existing pipelines owned by
Petrobras.
The ethanol will be captured in the interior, taken
to a hub (distribution point) in Paulínia, São Paulo,
and then sent on to the metropolitan regions of São
Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The first part of the project
will be ready by February 2013, while the second part
(focused on the export market) should be completed
by 2016.
Logum Projects Director Moacir Megiolaro explains
that the company will encourage producers
and distributors to use the ethanol transport system.
“One of the system’s main users will be ETH Bioenergy,”
he says.
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