More controversy for Manaus

TPL is a 70%/30% venture between Log-In and local Manaus based company Juma Participacoes SA, and the intention is to construct a phase one 250,000 teu capacity box facility on a 600,000 sq m site in Manaus owned by Juma. The terminal will be located on the edge of the Manaus Industrial Complex where hundreds of multi-national companies assemble foreign parts for a wide range of consumer goods (particularly electronics) for export and onward shipment to the south of Brazil.

Vital Jorge Lopes, Log-In’s CEO said, “The implementation of the Porto das Lajes will provide the Manaus Industrial Complex (also known as the Manaus Economic Free Zone) with a logistics alternative that will boost the efficiency of the transportation of goods to/from Brazil’s Northern Region. Log-In will do its best to conclude this logistics alternative in record time.”

However, although the Environmental and Installation license has been granted by the Institute for Environmental Protection for the state of Amazonas (IPAAM), the project still needs final approval from the ports and waterways authority ANTAQ.