OPERATIONS
ULTRACARGO
Ultracargo is a leading provider of integrated logistics—road
transportation and storage services—for chemical
products and fuels in Brazil. Among the solutions Ultracargo
offers are road transportation facilities using its
own and third party fleets and storage services through
warehousing facilities at port terminals and rail junctions
for the handling of chemical products and fuels. Transportation
services include integrated multimodal transportation
as well as the receiving and dispatching of customer’s
goods. Ultracargo also offers ship loading and unloading
services, the operation of pipelines, logistics programming
and installation engineering. Ultracargo is the only
company in the Brazilian market to offer integrated
transport and bulk liquid and liquefied storage services
to the petrochemical industry.
Ultracargo operates a fleet of approximately 529 tanker
trucks and provides transportation services to the
chemical and fuel industries. Ultracargo had a storage
capacity of 211,551 cubic meters and 11,200 square
meters at December 31, 2004. Ultracargo accounts for
approximately 71% of all tank capacity for liquids
at the Aratu Terminal in the State of Bahia, which
serves South America’s largest petrochemicals
complex and it is also present at the ports of Suape
and Santos.
Ultracargo’s principal competitive advantages
include (i) its unique position as the only company
in the market equipped to offer integrated transportation
services and storage for the chemical products and
fuels segment; (ii) the location of its assets, and;
(iii) the commitment to operational safety.
MARKET
In 2002, Ultracargo renewed the rental contracts
of its principal terminals at Aratu and Suape until
2022 and 2030, respectively, with the objective
of expanding its chemical product and derivative
operations. The first expansion program has already
been concluded, corresponding to an the increase
of 20,000 cubic meters in storage area at the Aratu
terminal.
In 2004 Ultracargo complete the Tatuí Intermodal
Terminal and the Montes Claros Liquid Fuel Terminal.
The Tatuí Intermodal Terminal has been designed
to receive petrochemical resins from the Triunfo
Petrochemical Complex, in the state of Rio Grande
do Sul, for subsequent distribution throughout the
state of São Paulo. The Montes Claros Liquid
Fuel Terminal counts with a 4.4 thousand m3 capacity
for fuel storage.
The conclusion of the Santos Inter-modal Terminal,
constructed in partnership with Crystalsev and Cargill/
Coinbra, is scheduled for the beginning of 2005.
Ultracargo’s investment in this terminal is
budgeted at approximately R$ 80 million and has an
occupied area of approximately 64,000 square meters
and a total of 35,000 cubic meters of tankage space
for chemical products. Crystalsev and Cargill/Coinbra
are to invest in tankage space for 40,000 square
meters of alcohol and 38,000 cubic meters of vegetable
oils, respectively. This project will be Ultracargo’s
second port installation to integrate road, rail
and maritime transportation systems, as in the case
in Aratu.
QUALITY
Ultracargo was recertified in 2003, by SASSMAQ (safety,
health, environmental and quality, evaluation system),
continuing to be Brazil's first company in the
sector to qualify under this quality standard.
The system has the aim of ensuring that the service
providers in this segment meet the technical standards
set by the chemical industry, so as to reduce the
level of risk associated with transport and distribution
operations. Furthermore, all the units have adapted
their Quality Management Systems to conform to
the ISO 9001:2000 standard, in a process based
on continuous improvement and catering to the specific
needs of each client.
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