Suape port

Suape on the map of Pernambuco

The deep-water port of Porto de Suape is a Brazilian seaport in the state of Pernambuco, located between the towns of Cabo de Santo Agostinho Ipojuca and at the mouth of the river Rio Ipojuca 40 km from the city Recife.

The port and industrial complex was planned under the pernambucanischen Governor José Francisco de Moura Cavalcanti in the area of ​​Praia de Suape 1973 to 1975 and built in 1978. The original plan was that once the port is to replace the port of Recife. For this purpose, a state law was adopted on November 7, 1978, which provided for the construction of Suape Complexo Industrial as Portuario. Today the port is one of the largest seaports in the region and it represents a distribution center for goods is to be transferred from or to the states of Pernambuco, Alagoas and Paraíba. In addition, the adjacent industrial center also produces goods that are intended directly for export by sea. The port has road access to the national road PE -060, which leads straight back along the coast in the state of Alagoas and to Recife. A particular focus of the port of Suape is in the handling of containers. In 1995, the Suape Container Terminal began operations. There were particular from 2000 onwards enormous growth rates in the handling of containers reached ( in 62,000 TEU container units and already 132,000 in 2006 TEU). The operation of the container terminal was privatized in this period and today leads the Philippine port terminal operator ICTSI the operations.

With the expansion of the port and a 10 km long, the original shoreline upstream breakwater was built. The then altered flow conditions in the estuaries of Rio Ipojuca and Merepe be named as one of the causes for the onset of shark attacks from 1992 before Recife.