According to data provided by the oilseed lobby Abiove, trucks loaded with soybeans had to wait in a 28-kilometer-long line to deliver their product to terminals at Miritituba port on the Amazonian coast of Para state.

Terminals are operated by Cargill, Bunge and Hidrovias, a logistics company in Brazil, as well as Amaggi, Brazil.

The traffic is usually heavy around the Miritituba Terminals. These terminals receive soybeans from the Center-West, load them onto barges and then ship the grains to the ports in the North of Brazil.

Analysts and the Brazilian government claim that this year's soybean harvest will be a record crop, with nearly 180 million tons. The majority of Brazil's soybean production is shipped to China.

Daniel Amaral of Abiove, director of economy and regulatory affairs, stated in an interview with the Daily Mail on Friday that trucks are lined up outside Miritituba every year.

He added that heavy rains exacerbate the problem, along with the fact that the final stretch of the road connecting farms in Mato Grosso and the port facilities is still unpaved.

Amaral stated that "these problems persist" until the port's?definitive? access is built.

Via Brasil BR-163, a company that manages the 1,009 km (627 miles),?of highway connecting 'Mato Grosso and the Miritituba 'facilities said work is underway to complete the final 5.7 kilometer stretch of road by November this year. (Reporting and editing by Anil D’Silva; Ana Mano)

(source: Reuters)