Construction work at Ports of Santos and São Sebastião and Nova Tamoyos road improve logistics
Carlos Brazil – Santos (SP)
Bit by bit the projects promised in the coast of the state of São Paulo are coming true. That is the case of a segment that concentrates significant resources: ports. Highlight goes to the Port of Santos, which demands considerable resources not only for its operation and maintenance, but particularly for its modernization and constant expansion; and the port of São Sebastião, which will be increased for R$2 billion.
As to the roads of access and traffic in the coast of the state of São Paulo, highlight goes to the beginning of the construction of lot 3 and 4 at Nova Tamoyos Contornos road in São Sebastião. Investments in urban mobility, on the other hand, are spread: construction of the line Light On-track Vehicles (VLT) in Santos, the project of the Santos-Guaruja underwater tunnel; and the implementation of the Metropolitan System of bus corridors between Santos and São Vicente.
There is still an important project in the environmental area. Developed by Sabesp, the state company that provides services to over 350 municipalities in the state, the Clean Wave Program is being built in order to adapt the destination of effluents from the sanitary sewers in the coast of the state.
Petrobras’ investments
As a result of the discovery of oil and gas in the pre-salt province in the Basin of Santos, Petrobras has been investing significantly in that region. In the city of Santos, the state company is setting up the new headquarters of the Unit of Operations of Exploration and Production of the Basin of Santos (UO-BS) in a compound composed of three towers at a R$380 million cost. The first 14-story building in the compound is being finished. Currently, eight extraction and production systems under the management of the UO-BS are operating in the Basin of Santos. Now, for 2014’s second semester, two new systems will start operations in the Basin of Santos.
Within its plans for 2018 Petrobras is investing US$153.9 billion in oil and gas exploration and production; out of that total about US$80 billion will go to the pre-salt area, which encompasses the Basin of Campos, in Rio de Janeiro, and the Basin of Santos. Until 2018 the UO-BS will increase its local headcount from a little over 1 thousand professionals at the end of 2013 to almost 3,700 employees by 2018.
Until December 2014, Petrobras is also expected to complete the process of construction of two births in the Port of Santos to shelter vessels at service of the platforms in the Basin of Santos. In the area of specialized labor qualification the company will invest R$77 million at a new Center of Technology of Research in the outskirts of Santos in a partnership with the following universities: USP, Unesp and Unicamp.
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Ports of Santos and São Sebastião
The Port of Santos has undergone services of adaptation and increases, in addition to forecasting new investments soon. According to Companhia Docas
do Estado de São Paulo, which administrates the port terminal, among the ongoing project the one that has consumed more resources is the unification of the dragging of the port’s canal, with investments of R$500 million. Aligning Cais de Outeirinhos – jobsite paralyzed during the World Cup to enable passenger ships to berth – has been resumed. There R$289 billion are being invested.
An invitation to bid is to be launched for providing reinforcements to the pier so that berths can be deepened, with investments forecast at R$204 billion. In that same phase is the project to reinforce two births at Ilha Barnabé, for R$52 million, in addition to environmental programs required by the licensing proceeding, which will cost R$59 million. With its construction recently completed for R$200 million, the port’s canal has been deepened in its deepest stretch, the number 4. In the final phase there are partial reinforcement and recovery of piers, access bridge and tube ways to the Terminal da Alemoa, for R$38 million.
In the area of mobility next to the port R$110 million will be invested in construction work at
Avenida Perimetral, between Macuco and Ponta da Praia districts. The initiative is undergoing a phase to define the executive project. After the completion of the first phase of the construction work at the left margin of Avenida Perimetral (in Santos), the executive project for the second phase of the intervention at that site will cost R$5.3 billion. To update the Port of Santos an invitation to bid is to be held for the project of acquisition and installation of a Vessel Traffic Management Information System, VTMIS, for R$36.5 million.
After the completion of the construction of the first phase of implementation and the recent start of operations, private investments to complete the projects of Embraport (Empresa Brasileira de
Terminais Portuários) will be resumed, which will spend R$2.3 billion in total until its completion, and of BTP (Brasil Terminal Portuário), which is expected to use about R$2 billion in total until it is complete.
The Port of São Sebastião has received R$176 million investments in improvements and qualification of the port terminal. According to Companhia Docas de São Sebastião, that port is undergoing the completion phase the project of reinforcement of the structure of the pier and the retro-area, with R$110.8 million investments. In 2014 the recovery and adaptation of yard 1 and warehouses 4, 5 and 6 will also be delivered in 2014, for R$11.7 million.
R$44.8 million more are being destined to the preparation of projects to build yards, which should be complete next October. At warehouses at yards 4, 5 and 6 the cover canvases are being replaced with aluminum plates for R$2.2 million. R$1.6 million more have been destined to build temporary storage stations for residues. In addition to the improvements already delivered, the port will be increased. Done in phases and with executive projects already ready, that increase will enable the port area of São Sebastião to grow from current 400 thousand m2 to 800 thousand m2 of operations. Investments should sum up R$2 billion.
Nova Tamoyos Road
Just before the beginning of the World Cup last June the government of the State of São Paulo announced the beginning of the construction of lots 3 and 4 of the road Nova Tamoyos Contornos. The stretch is 9.3 km long and is located between the north coast of São Sebastião and the port of that municipality. In the project R$818 million are being invested. The construction is a continuation of lots 1 and 2 at that road, located in Caraguatatuba, which have been under construction since October 2013. Summing up all stretches, investments reach R$1.8 billion.
Fonte: Revista O Empreiteiro
