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By Ana Mano
SAO PAULO, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Brazilian logistics firm Rumo RAIL3.SA said on Thursday a conveyor belt at a key grain transshipment station in Mato Grosso state caught fire in the small hours of the day.
The fire occurred at a busy time in the season, when Brazil is harvesting a massive soybean crop and begins to ship it to importers like China.
Rumo said the fire has been controlled and operations have resumed normally, without providing details.
Eduardo Vanin, a soybean analyst with Agrinvest, said on a social media post that the Rumo facility is the most important rail link between farm country and the Santos port.
The transshipment station, located in Rondonopolis, handles some 1,500/2,000 trucks per day, or about 60,000 to 80,000 tons per day, according to the analyst.
(Reporting by Ana Mano; Editing by Andrea Ricci)
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