Tecon Rio Grande has a total area of 670,000 square meters, including 320,000 square meters of paved area, with a dock of 600m, and two berths for ships. Moreover, we are concluding the construction of our third berth, to be completed in the second six-month period of 2007. Upon the expansion of the terminal, Tecon Rio Grande will have three berths and a dock of 850 meters, with estimated capacity to transport approximately 670,000 containers or 1.13 million TEUs per year.

In 2006, Tecon Rio Grande handled 364,872 containers, or 614,732 TEU, making it one of the largest port terminals of containers in Brazil and in the South America, according to CNNT/Datamar and CEPAL data. Moreover, Tecon Rio Grande’s productivity has increased consistently since the beginning of operations in 1997, reaching the maximum of 46.1 containers/hour in 2004. With the construction of a third berth and the assembling of the portainers and RTGs, productivity was reduced to 39.3 containers/hour in 2006, however.
When the new equipment begins operations at the outset of 2007, we expect productivity to reach even higher levels.
Such productivity is the result of investments in equipment and leasehold improvements. Since our first operations at Tecon Rio Grande, we have invested US$97 million in infrastructure, equipment, IT systems and personnel development. Currently, Tecon Rio Grande has:

• Dock Equipment: four port cranes (50 ton Post Panamax Gantry Cranes) and three mobile cranes (100 ton MHCs Gottwald Post Panamax);
• Yard Equipment: four RTG cranes with capacity of up to six containers of height and seven containers of width, 12 reach stackers and 32 tractors;
• Other Infrastructure: 17,000 square meters of warehouse, 1,007 sockets for reefer containers, one terminal for repairing empty containers, 11 stackers for empty containers (six top loaders and five front loaders) and 13 forklifts.

Additionally, we use a system of control and management at the Tecon Rio Grande terminal of containers with highly sophisticated software that is able able to follow cargo throughout its transportation and to control its storage in both in yard and on dock. This system also allowed our planning staff at port terminals to be fully integrated with planning staff of ship owners, increasing our efficiency. For further information, see “Business — Information Technology”.