Posted on April 15, 2026
The Chilean pulp group Arauco is investing 4.4 billion (bn) reais (US$860 million) in logistics projects in Brazil, amid progress on the construction of the world’s largest pulp mill.
The company will invest 2bn reais in the construction of a terminal at the Port of Santos, in São Paulo, after receiving authorization from the port sector regulator, Antaq, to complete the acquisition of a concession contract for the Alemoa S/A private-use terminal (TUP), which belonged to Terminal Marítimo Alemoa.
“As Santos currently has infrastructure limitations, we evaluated brownfield and greenfield alternatives. The company’s option was for a TUP (Private Use Terminal),” said Alberto Pagano, Logistics Director of Arauco’s pulp division in Brazil, quoted by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo.
Meanwhile, another 2.4bn reais will be invested by the company in a railway with a length of 45km, according to the newspaper Valor Econômico, citing the same executive.
The railway section to be built will connect the company’s industrial unit in Mato Grosso do Sul to the Malha Norte railway, operated by Rumo Logística.
All this logistics will allow the outflow of the pulp produced at the company’s plant in Inocência, in Mato Grosso do Sul, with the commodity being loaded onto ships bound for foreign markets, mainly in Asia.
The company is building in Brazil what is considered the largest pulp mill in the world, as part of a plan called the Sucuriú Project.
In total, the company plans to invest US$4.6bn, including logistics and the factory, which will have a production capacity of 3.5 million tons of pulp per year.
