A windstorm, accompanied by heavy rains that have hit Rio Grande do Sul all week, damaged part of the roof of the warehouses where CMPC Brasil, part of the CMPC group, stores cellulose for export, in the city of Rio Grande, causing a loss “yet to be assessed,” the company said in a statement to Reuters on Friday.
The company specified that its industrial unit located in Guaíba, near the Guaíba River, whose water level reached 2.46 meters on Thursday, worrying the authorities, did not suffer any kind of slowdown due to strong winds and of the rains that reached the south. region.
“The forestry operation was also not directly affected by the strong winds, but there are records of some accesses to forest areas blocked by water,” he added in a statement.
The number of dead and missing following the passage of an extratropical cyclone over Rio Grande do Sul at the beginning of the week amounted to 41 and 46 respectively, according to the latest data from the state government. In total, 87 municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul were affected.
The governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Eduardo Leite (PSDB), announced 1 billion reais in financing operations from Banrisul and 20 million reais from the Department of Health for the affected regions.
The CMPC added in a statement that its operations directed water trucks to the municipalities of Lajeado and Estrela to help with local cleanup and reconstruction.
The CMPC group owns 44 industrial plants in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. The company began operating in Brazil in 2009, when it acquired the industrial unit in Guaíba, Rio Grande do Sul.
Source: Terra
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