Conceived with the most up to date technology for sugar reception, storage, movement and shipment, with automated operation and control, the Copersucar Sugar Terminal (TAC) started its first phase of operations in the 1998/99 harvest, moving more than 700,000 tonnes of the bagged product alone. Since the start of its operations, the performance of TAC has surpassed all expectations.

In the 2001/2 harvest, when 70% of the total shipment of 1.1 billion tonnes belonged to non-cooperative members, the excellence of its services brought rewards to its users.

The second phase of the Terminal was implemented to enable the movement of products in bulk. More than simply contributing to expansion of the physical capacity for the country’s exports, and modernizing the port of Santos, the Copersucar Sugar Terminal is of fundamental importance for exports of production from Copersucar associated units because it increases the competitiveness of these companies.

Mastery of operations allows shipment programs to be tailored to client requirements, creating loyal relationships and allowing negotiations with end clients, with all the benefits and added value resulting from a direct commercial relationship. Clients win, cooperative producers win, and the country wins.

The capacity established in the first two phases, with volumes of 4,000 tonnes per day of bagged sugar shipments, and 25,000 tonnes of bulk sugar shipments served the requirements for Copersucar products movements and left space for the third phase of the terminal. This expansion has important strategic value for sugar or bulk movement of third parties to serve the future requirements of the Cooperative.

With the third phase, the capacity of the terminal is of 4 million tonnes of bulk and 0.5 million tonnes of bagged. These storage volumes are not far from the exports Copersucar has already made, of 2.5 million tonnes in the 1999/00 harvest.