Operações de Ship to Ship, Ship to Barge e Transshipment: uma contribuição para a logística portuária nacional

Abstract

Today Brazil occupies the third position of the largest producer of agricultural foods in the world, behind only China and India. The distribution of these foods, both for the domestic market and for the foreign market, requires an organized distribution logistics operation. Several factors influence the ideal place for its distribution, factors ranging from product displacement time, waiting time, bureaucracy imposed by law, port structure, among others. Regarding the port structure, the work will present an option that will certainly optimize the time for distribution to the final consumer, reduce the bottlenecks that today are concentrated in the ports of the south and southeast and present a cheap and efficient option for the export of food, mainly to Asia, the main consumer market, which is the loading/unloading of products using transhipment between ships, known as transshipment, which is the transhipment of solid or liquid bulk between vessels. Despite the idea of transshipment serving all national ports, the focus of this study will be on ports in the northern region of Brazil, performing transshipment.