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
Contract with Wilson Sons
for operation and maintenance (O&M).
OceanPact emergency
response support base.
VTS (Vessel Traffic System) monitoring.
First Phase
In its first phase, Vast`s new terminal is set to include the construction of a tank farm with a total capacity of up to 84,000 m³ for the storage of petroleum-derived products. These products will be received and dispatched via maritime and road transport, using a loading and unloading platform for tanker trucks to handle the land-based movement of these liquids.
To form this tank farm, 22 tanks are planned, occupying an area of up to 50,000 m². Currently, 39,000 m³ have already been allocated, under contract, to Vast`s clients.
For the remaining 45,000 m³, multiproduct tanks will be built to store clear liquids, ethanol, biodiesel, base oil, C5+, etc.
During this phase, transshipment services are being carried out in ship-to-ship and ship-to-barge models, along with mooring and unmooring operations, crew changes, supply loading, waste removal, and water supply.
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.