Overview:

The Port of Paranagua (BR) is a city in southern Brazil and the second largest coffee export port. Located on the shore of Balagua Bay in the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2013, the city’s population was estimated to be 148,232 people, with a population density of 169.92 people per square kilometer, making it the tenth most populous city in Paraná State. The city's total area of 826.674 km 2 (319.18 sq mi). The human development index in 2000 was 0.782. It was built in 1585. The port is excellent, with a water depth of 11 meters, and mainly exports coffee, yerba mate, wood, soybeans, soybean meal, etc. The industry is dominated by agricultural products processing and wood processing. Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, is connected by road; Paraguayan exports are also used as a free port. Famous buildings in the multi-colonial period. There is a Paraguay transit area in the port area. The 9A warehouse is managed and controlled by Paraguay. They use enclosed trucks to transport imported goods back to the country. It has a great impact on Paraguay's import and export trade. There are many container liner companies that have opened transportation from China to this port.

Port business

There are two important ports in Parana: Paranagua and Antonina. Together they transport about 28 million tons of cargo each year. Almost all (90%) of port activities are controlled by private interests.

The Port of Paranagua is the largest exporter of soybeans in Latin America, but it can handle all types of cargo. This is Brazil's largest grain transportation port and the second largest shipping terminal. It is connected to the inland Paraná state through a road and rail network.

The Port of Paranagua covers an area of ​​more than 2.3 million square meters and has a bulk cargo storage capacity of more than 1.2 million tons. The total length of the wharf is 26,000 meters and the depth is 8-13 meters. It contains 24 warehouses, 70,000 square meters of grocery storage and 78 storage tanks, which can store 260,000 cubic meters of liquid cargo. The container yard is nearly 303,000 square meters, and the Port of Paranagua can handle 25 containers per hour. The port also has the capacity to store 60,000 tons of sugar and 7,000 tons of refrigerated cargo.

Paranagua Port is Brazil’s most important agricultural export port, exporting 2 million tons of soybeans, 7 million tons of soybean pellets and 200,000 tons of corn every year. The port area includes 21 warehouses, which can store a total of 760,000 tons of soybeans and grains. The silo is connected to the loading dock by a conveyor belt, which can load three Panamax ships at the same time.

In 2007, the Port of Paranagua handled more than 5.8 million tons of exports and 2.7 million tons of imported goods. It handles more than 25 million tons of dry bulk cargoes and nearly 4 million tons of liquid bulk cargoes annually. The Port of Paranagua handled the export of nearly 300,000 TEUs and the import of approximately the same amount of containerized cargo. Nearly two thousand five hundred ships carried these goods through the port.