Port of Santos terminal stake

CHS joining forces with Rumo SA to build a grain terminal at the Port of Santos.

Southern Brazil’s heavy flooding disrupts grain shipments, damages storage, threatens exports and impacts agriculture and the economy.

The new terminal will feature 21 pieces of advanced equipment designed to minimize consumption and emissions of polluting gases.

International grain traders face uncertainty regarding shipments to Egypt after it emerged last week that the country’s agricultural quarantine authorities had rejected a second wheat consignment due to traces of ergot fungus.

The port of Barcelona is aiming to boost its already substantial agribulk traffic, mainly through the Ergransa Terminal.

In what is claimed to be the first penetration of the CBH Group’s monopoly over bulk grain shipments from Western Australia, global grain trader Bunge exported 18,000t of wheat from its new terminal at the port of Bunbury in mid-July.