Cotegipe Port Terminal is located in the Cotegipe Industrial and Port Complex, on the south bank of the Cotegipe channel, northwest of Ponta do Fernandinho, Aratu Bay, Salvador-BA, and is located in the following geographic coordinates: Latitude 11° 47 ’26 S and Longitude 38 ° 28 ′ 5 W.
It began operations on October 6, 2005 with the unloading of wheat at Grande Moinho Aratu, a company of the M. Dias Branco Group. As of 2006, with the construction of its first bulk warehouse, with a static capacity of 100,000 tons of soybeans, shipments of cereals for export began. The Cotegipe Port Terminal currently has two berths, with a total length of 520m, warehouses and silos for 396,000 t of grain and dumpers with a reception capacity of 1,500 t / h. The port facilities are private and mixed-use.