Brazilian ethanol pipeline system receives funding

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The Brazilian Development Bank has approved a bridge loan of approximately $US960 million for Logum Logistica to implement an ethanol pipeline and to install product collection centres.

The logistic system for transporting ethanol is part of the Brazilian Government’s Growth Acceleration Programme and comprises 1,330 km of pipelines with a transportation capacity of 20.8 MMcm/a as well as ten ethanol storage terminals.

The system will link the main ethanol producing regions in the states of São Paulo and Goiás, Triângulo Mineiro, south and southeast of Mato Grosso do Sul and northern Paraná to consumption centres in Greater São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as the ports of Ilha D’Água (in Rio de Janeiro) and Caraguatatuba (in São Paulo), for export and/or shipment of ethanol to other consumption centres in the country.

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