Açu Liquids Terminal (TLA)
The terminal is designed to meet the market’s demand for more infrastructure to handle liquid cargo in the country by building a tank farm for storing petroleum-derived products such as marine fuels, clean products, lubricants, and biofuels.
TLA FEATURES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Two operational berths:
one capable of handling medium-range class vessels of up to 55,000 DWT, 196 meters in length, and up to 11.9 meters draft; and another for vessels of up to 10,400 DWT, 110 meters in length, and up to nine meters draft;
Truck loading and unloading platform
for overland liquid cargo operations.
Bidirectional access channel,
14 meters deep and 300 meters wide.
200,000 m2 area
available for construction
OceanPact emergency
response support base.
VTS (Vessel Traffic System) monitoring.
First Phase
Today, TLA has a licensed capacity of 108,000 m³ for storing liquids that can be received and dispatched by sea and land, this last one by a loading and unloading platform for tanker trucks.
For the first phase of the terminal, 11 tanks are to be built, with a total capacity of 38,600 m³, which have already been allocated under contract to Vast's clients. The remaining capacity will be built over the next phases, by means of multi-product tanks for handling clear fuels, ethanol, biodiesel, base oil, C5+ etc.
For the remaining 45,000 m³, multiproduct tanks will be built to store clear liquids, ethanol, biodiesel, base oil, C5+, etc.
Future Vision
In its next stages, the TLA plans to handle diesel and gasoline; aviation fuels; chemicals such as methanol, soybean oil, caustic soda, naphtha, and sulfuric acid; gases; and lower-carbon marine fuels like ethanol, biodiesel, SAF, e-methanol, and green ammonia, by blending biofuels with fossil fuels, contributing to the decarbonization of the sector.
To achieve this, the project envisions the construction of multiproduct tanks capable of storing both light and dark liquids, along with expansions to the truck loading platforms.