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Brazil Focus approach channel, and turning basin The port will have an oil treatment plant, and other industries located in are complete. TX1 will be able to facility (OTF), which is now licensed the industrial complex.

handle up to 100 million tonnes of for 1.2MMb/d. The OTF will enhance

Commercial iron ore a year and 1.2MMbo/d. The the quality and the commercial value other terminal, TX2, is an onshore of the product by lowering the water LLX is engaged in negotiations terminal being built around a 6.5km- and salt content in the oil through with companies from various sectors long, 300m-wide approach channel. centrifuge and decantation. wishing to set up or handle cargo at

TX2 will boast a wharf line of over The port may also be connected the port. NOV, who acquired NKT 13km, where liquid and solid bulk, to gas pipelines, especially from the Flexibles, is installing a fexible-pipe coal, pig iron, slag, and granite will Santos Basin, to supply natural gas to production plant. At an advanced be handled, in addition to steel steelworks, the MPX thermal power stage of production, the plant is products.

The port has been designed to handle 350 million tons a year of exports and imports, especially oil, which ranks it among the largest port complexes in the world. The

Açu Superport is forecast to become operational in 2013.

Industrial Complex

The port will boast an adjacent industrial district, in addition to a stockpile yard for the products being handled.

This industrial complex will house offshore industries, a metalworking cluster, a bulk liquid storage base, a shipbuilding yard of OSX (EBX

Group’s offshore and shipbuilding equipment and services division), an oil treatment and storage facility, a thermal power generation facility of MPX (an energy company of

EBX Group), logistics yard, iron-ore pelletizing plants, cement mills, IT frms, and steel mills, among others.

The project also embraces cargo consolidation and distribution centers, facilities for vessels supporting offshore activities, and clusters for processing ornamental rocks, coatings, and ceramics.

Oil facilities

Located just 150 km from Campos

Basin, the port will also meet the logistics and supply requirements of the oil and gas production and exploration activities in Campos,

Santos, and Espírito Santo

Basins, Berto says. The venture is strategically positioned to handle and treat oil, provide support to offshore E&P operations, and house a metalworking cluster dedicated to the oil and gas industry.

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