📋 Tender Overview
With an expected investment of R 54.5 million, the port of Natal will undergo dredging works and readjustment of the access channel, which will allow the safe navigation of larger vessels and increase cargo movement. The intervention promises to strengthen the economy of Rio Grande do Norte, generating jobs and expanding the states logistics capacity. The warning to the bidding notice was published last week in the Federal Official Gazette (DOU) by Companhia Docas do Rio Grande do Norte (Codern), responsible for the administration of Porto.
The initiative is part of an effort by the federal government to modernize the countrys port infrastructure, ensuring that strategic terminals receive higher silent vessels (distance between the waterline and the vessels hull bottom), boosting the economy.
The modernization of the port of Natal will streamline the Potiguar economy, allowing the increase in cargo movement, including the resumption of iron ore boarding, as well as generating direct and indirect jobs, said the minister of ports and airports, Silvio Costa Filho.
The works provide for the excavation of the sea access canal to the Potengi River, raising the depth from 10 meters to 12.5 meters, with the removal of 1.8 million cubic meters from sediment. The project is expected to be completed between four and six months, scheduled to start the second half of this year, according to Codern.
The terminal access channel, which currently has three kilometers long, a minimum width of 100 meters in the straight and 120 meters in the curve, suffers from severe siltation, making navigation difficult and increasing the risk of bells. Draging is an old demand from the port community, waiting for over a decade.
Companies interested in participating in the competition should access the notice and register their proposals through the website www.licitacoes-e.com.br. The opening of the proposals will take place on June 25th.
Special Advisory of Social Communication Ministry of Ports and Airports
