APMT Itajai Develops the Ro-Ro Option…

APM Terminals Itajai, which has been losing container volume and market share to Portonave, its rival across the River Itajai Acu, and also to Porto Itapoa, some 90 km away, is turning to ro-ro as a way of bolstering its bottom line.

The Florida Highway, operated by K Line, called at the south Brazilian terminal in mid-March, and it unloaded 460 highvalue BMW cars, the first in Itajai for nearly three years.

“We now have a monthly service from K Line and we are going to see more and more general cargo at our terminal this year,” said Aristides Junior, the CEO for APMT Itajai.

APM Itajai handled 528,000TEU in 2021, down 4.5 per cent from the 553,000TEU total in 2020. In the first two months of this year it handled just 58,000TEU, down 26.3 per cent from the 78,812TEU for same period in 2021.