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ITAIPU POWER PLANT
TRANSTRADE takes pride in its significant role in one of the world's largest energy projects, the ITAIPU Hydroelectric Power Plant.
As the leader of the Transportation Consortium (CITE -
This involved the transport of approximately 400,000 metric tons of equipment, valued at around USD 2 billion, including generators, turbines, and transformers. Many of these components were heavy lift pieces weighing over 350 metric tons and having oversized dimensions.
This project, situated on the Paraná River, began in 1976 and was completed in 1988.
It included the construction of a 125-
FURNAS CENTRAIS ELÉTRICAS
Following the initiation of the Itaipu Project, TRANSTRADE was selected to coordinate
and execute a three-
The equipment, valued at approximately USD 500 million, included large transformers,
converters, and substations imported from Europe and delivered ex-
COMPANHIA VALE DO RIO DOCE -
During the 1980s, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce imported equipment from Romania to balance the clearing dollars account of the Payment Treaty with that Eastern European state. TRANSTRADE managed the transportation of railway passenger coaches, cargo wagons, hopper wagons, steel sleepers, and rails. Approximately 2,000 railroad cars, 2 million steel sleepers, and 200,000 metric tons of rails were transported from Black Sea ports to Brazil.
Additionally, during the early 1980s, TRANSTRADE transported rails and heavy equipment
from Japan. Through its subsidiary IBE International Brasil Export, TRANSTRADE also
assisted CVRD with drawback transactions, involving the export of Brazilian-
FORMER SOVIET UNION
As a result of the Group’s trading activities with the former Soviet Union, TRANSTRADE, through its affiliated companies, undertook extensive transportation of fertilizer and other goods from the FSU to various countries worldwide, including China, Brazil, and the United States, and vice versa, beginning in 1988.
Transportation from the FSU involved solid bulk commodities (urea, ammonium sulfate, and ammonium nitrate), gaseous bulk (anhydrous ammonia), and steam coal from Ukraine, utilizing vessels under time charter.
To the FSU, TRANSTRADE transported a diverse array of goods, such as unassembled brick and ceramic tile factories, air and water pollution control and monitoring equipment, computers, spare parts for fertilizer plants, leather goods, shoes, and other items, representing the return on countertrade deals.
BANCO CENTRAL DO BRASIL
in early 1994, TRANSTRADE executed the transportation of banknotes for Banco Central do Brasil (Brazilian Central Bank) in preparation for the launch of Brazil’s new currency, the Real.
This operation took place in April and May 1994, utilizing modern Boeing 747 cargo jetliners, which departed from three different European locations to São Paulo and Brasília. The total shipment comprised over 1,000 metric tons of currency, with a face value exceeding USD 30 billion, equivalent to half of the currency then in circulation.
OTHER PROJECTS
TRANSTRADE has been involved in numerous transportation contracts, primarily on a
door-
Some of these projects include CHESF, COPEL, FURNAS, NUCLEP, ELETRONORTE, CEMIG, ELETROSUL, and COALBRA.
Unloading Nuclep’s heavy lift at Rio de Janeiro Port
Loading new Brazilian currency in a Boeing 747
Steam coal from the FSU
Unloading CVRD’s passengers coaches in the Port of Vitória, Brazil
Rotor arriving at Itaipu’s job site
Transportation Projects