The Itaqui Port Complex is located at São Marcos Bay at the city of São Luis, Capital of the Maranhão state, 11km away from downtown.

São Luis was founded by the French in 1612, and colonized by the Portuguese.

Its overall population is 860.000 inhabitants. The temperature varies between 21ºC to 32ºC. The Local Time: G.M.T. is minus 3 (three) hours, or minus 2 on Summer time.

Itaqui Port

The Organized Port of Itaqui disposes of 6 berths with depth between 9.00 and 19.00 meters at low tide, and hold adequate installations for loading and unloading operations of solid and liquid bulks, general cargos and containers.

It is located between parallels 02º34' S and 02º36' S and meridians 44º21' W and 44º24' W.

The area is administrated by EMAP - Empresa Maranhense de Administração Portuária. It is limited to the northeast by the line connecting the Tatinga Bridge to the mainland with geographic limited coordinates: Latitude 02º 23' 30'' S, Longitude 04º 23'10'' W; to São Marcos Bridge on São Luis island with coordinates: Latitude 02º 29'12'' S and Longitude 44º 18' 15'' W to the by the parallel at latitude 3º 00'00'' S; to the east by the coast line of island of São Luis; and to west by the coast of the mainland adjacent to São Marcos bay.

The port of Itaqui offers 367 meters of quay built on steel gabion piles 15.20 meters in diameter and covered with reinforced concrete reaching 9.03 meters above low water mark. An extension of this quay in a northerly direction has been concluded and handed over to the extinguished CODOMAR - Maranhão Docks Company. The quay has been increased by 270 meters. The extension is built on top of concrete tubing reinforced with steel jacketing measuring 2.1 meters in diameter. Which was dug in means of rotating bore to depths averaging 35meters. The overall linear length of presently-built quay is 1.617 meters.

01 - Drafts restriction

· Quay 101 à 09,00 meters and 239 meters of length.
· Quay 102 à 10,50 meters and 239 meters of length
· Quay 103 à 13,00 meters and 239 meters of length
· Quay 104 à 14,00 meters and 200 meters of length
· Quay 105 à 18,00 meters and 280 meters of length (Actually leased for CVRD)
· Quay 106 à 19,00 meters and 420 meters of length (Actually leased for Petrobrás)

02 - Length restriction

There are no restrictions regarding the length of the vessel since its size does not exceed the quay length. If this occurs, we will depend on the previous authorization from the Docks Company.

03 - Beam restriction

There are no restrictions regarding the beam of the vessel. However, for vessels over 18 meters wide, we will have some difficulty to reach the starboard/port side of the vessel (depending on which side alongside), because the shore cranes available ashore have maximum reach of 15 meters.

04 - Available Shore Equipments

• 03 cranes with safe weight lift of 3,2 tons, with reach of 15 meters and air draft of 18 meters, considering that one of those cranes is completely out of use. These cranes are disposed in the following way:
  - 02 in south quay.
  - 01 in the north quay, considering that these cranes can also assist vessels berthed at central quay,
  
• 02 cranes with safe weight lift of 6,3 tons, with reach of 15 meters and air draft of 18 meters, considering that these cranes are situated in the central quay, and can also assist vessels berthed at north pier
  

05 - Some of the most operated cargoes

Product	Operation
Manganese Ore	Exportation
Aluminum	Exportation
Cement	Importation
Rail	Importation
General Cargo	Importation
Fertilizer	Importation
Chemicals	Importation
Grains (Wheat)	Importation
Petroleum and derived	Importation
Demais cargas agregadas (Containers, Automóveis, ...)	Importação Exportation

06 - Storing Areas

The port has storing system composed by:

• 01 warehouse with 7.500 m2 covered.
• 04 concreted areas, with a total of 42.200 m2 not covered.

Beyond this more 8 silos with capacity for 7.200 tons, 4 verticals silos with capacity 12.000 tons, and one horizontal for 8.000 tons, all of them belong to thirds. There are 28 tanks for combustibles, of Petroquímicas Company, with 81.000 tons of capacity

07 - Water supply
The water is supplied through pipelines for the price of about R$ 3,00 per ton and with flow of 30 tons per hour.

08 - Bunker supply
Bunkers are supplied through pipelines at south and central quay. By option, the vessel can be also supplied by trucks at all quays.

09 - Loading and/or discharging rate

Product	Operation	Shape	Rate
Manganese ore Iron ore Pig iron	Loading	Bulk	300 tons/hour
Aluminum	Loading	Pallets	60 tons/ hour * 225 tons/ hour**
Aluminum	Loading	Sows	48 tons/ hour * 180 tons/ hour**
Cement	Unloading	Pallets Big bags Sling bags	50 tons/ hour
Gas	Unloading	Bulk	500 tons/ hour
Rail	Unloading	Tied	50 tons/ hour
General cargo	Unloading	Diverse	50 tons/ hour
Fertilizer	Unloading	Bulk	60 tons/ hour
Chemicals	Unloading	Bulk	300 M3/ hour ***
Grains(Wheat)	Unloading	Bulk	225 tons/ hour
Petroleum and derived	Unloading	Bulk	700 M3/hora***

* Rate for conventional vessels, as for example, vessels type SD14.
** Rate for vessels Box Shaped, Full Open Hatch.
*** The discharge of petroleum and chemicals is made through pipelines, spread by the three piers of the Itaqui port, that go straightly to the shore tanks.

10 - Work schedule

Normal Times à : From 07:30 to 11:30 and from 13:30 to 19:30,
Over Time à from 19:30 to 23:30 and from 01:30 to 05:30
Meal break à From 11:30 to 13:30 and from 23:30 to 01:30
Break for shifting gangs à From 07:30 to 07:35 and from 19:30 to 19:35,
Hereunder you will find the main information about working scheduled, for some of the most loaded/unloaded cargoes at Itaqui Port:

Produto	Horário
Manganese ore Pig iron	SHINC
Aluminum	SHEX *
Cement	SHEX **
Gas	SHINC
Rail	SHEX **
General cargo	SHEX **
Fertilizer	SHEX **
Chemicals	SHINC
Grains (Wheat)	SHINC
Petroleum and derived	SHINC

* Normally works only at normal times.
** Normally works at normal times and at overtimes.

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