ALL enters the fuel import market

The Latin America logistics (ALL) enters the fuel import market with the agreement announced yesterday with the Cattalini. The partnership signed with the concessionaire railroad — which operates in the South, Southeast and Central-Western parts of the country — will allow the construction of a diesel oil terminal in the port of Paranaguá, Paraná, which will receive the first shipments already in March. It is the first rail terminal dedicated to receiving diesel imported from Brazil.
The expectation of Business Director of ALL liquids, Luiz Gustavo Vitti, is that the diesel imports via Paranaguá, zoom in 10% the volume of transportation of petroleum products by rail this year. On average, the annual movement of the company is 6.5 billion gallons of fuel. "We have a high expectation because in recent years Brazil has been increasing gradually the volume of import of diesel," he says.
From 2010 to 2012, shipments have increased from 500 thousand liters to 3.7 billion litres of fuel. "And this tends to increase," estimates Vitti. "And ALL have this railway solution which can be used by any importer", celebrates.
Only with importing derivatives, ALL will move from Paranaguá to the interior of the country 600 million gallons of products this year. This is the capacity of the terminal Cattalini in porto.
According to the Executive, will be allocated to this transport 800 wagons tanks. "We believe that in the next five years Brazil will still import diesel to supply the domestic market," he says. "In addition, refineries in the Northeast could lead fuel up to Paranaguá via coasters and from there spread by railroad."
He also points out that this is an operation that does not rely on a dedicated fleet, as is the case of the operation to exportation of alcohol.
Tailored partnerships
The ALL has also partnered with Raízen, Cosan and Shell company, for the construction of an ethanol terminal in the city of Ourinhos, in São Paulo. The partnership is an important step for the export market, because, until then, the State of São Paulo, which is the main market for Brazilian ethanol export oriented, did not have a drain output via railroad. "We were able to concentrate all production of ethanol in the State of São Paulo in the terminal and thence send out to the port of Paranaguá. In this operation, we have a fleet of 300 dedicated cars, "says Vitti.
The Executive explained that this fleet needs to be unique because the ethanol for export cannot contain hydrocarbon, waste substance present in diesel fuel.
With this agreement, ALL will carry a year about 500 million liters of ethanol, more than double the busy for shipments last year, when the company accounted for 400 million liters of ethanol for export. This represented 20% of all fuel transported by the company last year, which reached 2.5 billion liters.
Altogether passed by Rails ALL around 9 billion liters of liquid bulk, the majority of diesel for the internal market.