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Porto de Itaqui traça plano para zerar emissões

  • Spanish Market: Biofuels, Hydrogen, Oil products
  • 16/11/23

O porto de Itaqui, no Maranhão, prepara um plano de descarbonização, a ser lançado em outubro de 2024, para zerar as emissões de gases de efeito estufa até 2050, em meio a esforços para a transição energética.

O projeto é uma parceria entre a Empresa Maranhense de Administração Portuária (Emap) e o porto espanhol de Valência, que entregará três planos de ação para auxiliar Itaqui a definir futuras políticas e medidas. O porto brasileiro movimenta, principalmente, exportações de grãos e importações de derivados de petróleo, como diesel e gasolina.

Itaqui investiu R$1,8 milhão na iniciativa e recebeu o primeiro plano de ação,a respeito da metodologia do projeto, em setembro. Para os próximos passos, Valencia entregará um inventário da pegada de carbono do porto, em referência aos dados de 2022, que servirão como marco zero para o projeto. O plano final de descarbonização será divulgado em outubro do ano que vem.

Itaqui emite 700 t/ano de carbono, de acordo com pesquisas anteriores. "Acredito que as estimativas de Valencia serão um pouco maiores, pois os parâmetros internacionais podem ser diferentes", contou a gerente de Meio Ambiente do porto, Luane Lemos, à Argus.

Os três escopos de emissões de gases de efeito estufa, relativos a diferentes níveis de atividade, serão considerados no plano, que cobrirá de caminhões a navios e equipamentos portuários. "O documento vai nos orientar como poderemos substituir veículos poluentes, por exemplo", Lemos disse. "Pode ser com ferrovias, mudando o combustível ou trazendo as regiões consumidoras para mais perto."

Os caminhos para zerar as emissões também podem incluir hidrogênio, energia solar e eólicas offshore, ela acrescentou. A iniciativa para impulsionar fontes de energia renováveis no país é uma tendência em ascensão nos portos brasileiros. Suape, Santos e Pecém já anunciaram planos para produzir hidrogênio nos próximos anos.

O estado do Maranhão também está recebendo propostas de empresas internacionais sobre hidrogênio verde, contou Lemos à Argus. "Os navios estão evoluindo para usar combustíveis alternativos, e a amônia, o hidrogênio e gás têm sido ventilados como uma possível alternativa."

Mas os combustíveis fósseis não serão deixados de lado. "O mercado está mudando e estamos tentando acompanhar o mercado de combustíveis fósseis e outras demandas que estão chegando em decorrência de alterações globais", ela afirmou. Itaqui, inclusive, começará a exportar sebo bovino para ser utilizado como matéria-prima para renováveis no mês que vem.

O projeto de descarbonização é o primeiro em um porto brasileiro e teve 90pc de aderência de outras companhias que operam em Itaqui, como operadoras arrendatárias, agências que representam navios, profissionais de praticagem e transportadoras.

As discussões sobre mudanças climáticas não são novidade no porto maranhense, tendo começado em 2021. Após os primeiros inventários de emissões, , calculados no mesmo ano, autoridades enxergaram a necessidade de construir um plano de descarbonização, apontou Lemos. "Olhamos para Valencia, que possui metas de zerar as emissões até 2030 e muita experiência no setor."


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