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a contar com um terminal de minérios e a Refinaria Abreu e para longas distâncias.
Lima (Rnest) turbinada pelo segundo trem de refino -, a movi- Outro mercado importante que deve ser atraído com a fer-
mentação do porto dará um salto extraordinário. Deve chegar rovia é o do chamado Polígono MATOPIBA. A região - formada
a 48,6 milhões de toneladas em 2030. pelos estados do Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí e Bahia - é forte
Um estudo de demanda vai apontar potenciais mercados na produção de grãos, como soja e milho. Nenhuma dessas
para o novo modal. No radar estão, por exemplo, as frutas cargas transita atualmente por Suape. A aposta é que isso tem
cultivadas no Vale do São Francisco. O polo gesseiro do Ser- tudo para começar a mudar. A locomotiva da ferrovia deve,
tão do Araripe tem tudo para se tornar outro potencial usuá- afinal, dar efetivamente mais velocidade ao desenvolvimento
rio dos trilhos, já que ainda transporta tudo de caminhão econômico.

Achievements and challenges

Looking to the future, Suape has set its sights on 2035. Our jor lines of mega carriers – major shipping operators and regular
guide for the next years will be the new Master Plan, complete with lines. Anyone who is astounded by the 347.29-meter-long ships
innovative strategic planning and a series of challenges. The pros- that currently unload their cargo at Suape – or by the size that the
pects for the future, however, are optimistic, and full of growth, port has grown to in the past 45 years – should prepare themselves
sustainability, structural investment, and economic and social de- for what is to come. On various fronts.
velopment. Cargo shipment operations suggest that even better Development also involves trains. A railroad has been rein-
times lie ahead. Up to 2035, we should see growth of 64%. cluded on the Federal Government’s investment agenda, with a
Another important indicator is the projected increase in the planned 548km stretch that will connect the Salgueiro branch line,
total surface area of the quay. In 2023, Suape had two kilometers in the Sertão region of Pernambuco, with the industrial port com-
of quayside. The Master Plan projects that the port will, in future, plex, in the Recife Metropolitan Region.
have around ten kilometers. This is five times the current figure. When it is up and running, this railroad will change the freight
Specialists also bear good tidings. They estimate that the industri- transport logistics of the whole region. This is something that has
al port complex, when it has expanded to its full capacity, will be been needed for decades and it means that the Northeast region
the main hub port in South America. will now be able to drive its own development, begin to diversify
This is no small achievement. It means that we must imagine modes of transportation and depend less on road haulage, also
Suape in the future as being a hub with the capacity to attract ma- making major new connections with shipping routes.

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