Created in the 1970s, and today the largest private-sector company from Algeria, with 15,000 employees, Cevital was originally dedicated to metalwork and glassworks. It only got in the agribusiness in the late 1990s, but the sector already accounts for about 50% of the company’s total revenue, expected to reach $8 billion in 2015. In Algeria, Cevital produces fresh produce and fruits, but in small areas, due to geographic limitations.
Algerian group Cevital is preparing a big arrival in Brazil. Traditional importer of agricultural commodities from Brazil, the company is structuring a business plan that includes more than $2 billion in initial investments in grain processing and logistics for transportation through the Brazilian North. The company has begun acquiring land and expects to begin its operations in 2020.
Talks that culminated in the change in the Law of Ports in Brazil, in 2013, easing the construction of new private terminals, were the trigger for Cevital to decide to have a stronger position in the country. Cevital formed a technical group and CEO Mr. Hegg began to help it with the selection of places to be visited, study of land and talks with authorities, preparing the implementation of a structure that is still in formation.
The group’s attentions were turned to river transportation and, naturally, to the exit through the North region, which has been object of the biggest bets to transport the national grain production of the Central-West region, still sent mostly to the ports of the South and Southeast regions.
The Algerian company has already acquired two pieces of land for the river terminals, one in Miritituba and another in Santarém, both in Pará, through which it intends to ship 3 million to 4 million tonnes per year. In Miritituba, it plans to invest $150 million in a transshipment terminal, from trucks to barges. In Santarém, it will spend a greater amount: $1.5 billion in a river-sea terminal, for transoceanic transportation.
To help in carrying the commodities, Cevital is also investing in storage in Mato Grosso, the top grain-producing state in Brazil. The company spent between $8 million and $10 million in the purchase of a warehouse in Vera, north of the state, and acquired “half-a-dozen” land parcels that will have the same use. At the moment, Cevital is establishing the subsidiaries to request the environmental licenses to each of the warehouses.
Cevital is also preparing the construction of a $500 million agro-industrial complex in Vera. The differential is that Cevital is an agro-industrial group, not a trading company. They buy for their own use.. The project will include a crusher, in addition to plants for biodiesel, corn-based ethanol, animal feed and eventually a fertilizers’ mixer, together with a logistic platform. The plant is expected to begin with capacity to process 1 million tonnes per year.
The company plans to have this entire industrial and logistic structure in operation in 2020. Cevital is studying other areas in Mato Grosso and Pará for warehouses and port terminals, and doesn’t rule out investing directly in agricultural production — which would require a Brazilian partner, since the Brazilian legislation restricts land purchases by foreigners.
(Fonte: jornal Valor online (by Mariana Caetano) - 12.05.2015)
Talks that culminated in the change in the Law of Ports in Brazil, in 2013, easing the construction of new private terminals, were the trigger for Cevital to decide to have a stronger position in the country. Cevital formed a technical group and CEO Mr. Hegg began to help it with the selection of places to be visited, study of land and talks with authorities, preparing the implementation of a structure that is still in formation.
The group’s attentions were turned to river transportation and, naturally, to the exit through the North region, which has been object of the biggest bets to transport the national grain production of the Central-West region, still sent mostly to the ports of the South and Southeast regions.
The Algerian company has already acquired two pieces of land for the river terminals, one in Miritituba and another in Santarém, both in Pará, through which it intends to ship 3 million to 4 million tonnes per year. In Miritituba, it plans to invest $150 million in a transshipment terminal, from trucks to barges. In Santarém, it will spend a greater amount: $1.5 billion in a river-sea terminal, for transoceanic transportation.
To help in carrying the commodities, Cevital is also investing in storage in Mato Grosso, the top grain-producing state in Brazil. The company spent between $8 million and $10 million in the purchase of a warehouse in Vera, north of the state, and acquired “half-a-dozen” land parcels that will have the same use. At the moment, Cevital is establishing the subsidiaries to request the environmental licenses to each of the warehouses.
Cevital is also preparing the construction of a $500 million agro-industrial complex in Vera. The differential is that Cevital is an agro-industrial group, not a trading company. They buy for their own use.. The project will include a crusher, in addition to plants for biodiesel, corn-based ethanol, animal feed and eventually a fertilizers’ mixer, together with a logistic platform. The plant is expected to begin with capacity to process 1 million tonnes per year.
The company plans to have this entire industrial and logistic structure in operation in 2020. Cevital is studying other areas in Mato Grosso and Pará for warehouses and port terminals, and doesn’t rule out investing directly in agricultural production — which would require a Brazilian partner, since the Brazilian legislation restricts land purchases by foreigners.
(Fonte: jornal Valor online (by Mariana Caetano) - 12.05.2015)
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