BTP - Brasil Terminal Portuário S / A was founded in January 2007 for the specific purpose of building and subsequently operating port facilities on a leased area in the Organized Port of Santos. Its parent company, Europe Terminal NV, based in Antwerp, Belgium, with over 20 years experience in port operations, is directly involved in building and operating port terminals in Belgium, Spain, Turkey, Italy, Russia and France, and handles approximately 50 million containers per year.

BTP is based in the city of Santos and has its own team of experienced professionals specializing in the Planning, Engineering, Environment and Administrative Management, who are responsible for sustainable development at all stages of the project with support from reputable consultants in various fields.

The following are the project's basic assumptions: economic feasibility; remediation of the former landfill area of Alemoa-Porto to revive its role as a port; respect for the environment; operational safety and efficiency; hiring local labor and services - as components that will reach higher productivity levels through coordinated action,.

BTP's development will be implemented in 2 phases; the first one will enable the terminal to handle around 1.1 million TEUs. The operational stage will create around 1,500 direct jobs and another 9,000 indirect ones. Between construction works, equipment, remediation and environmental reports, the total investment in the terminal will reach R$ 1.6 billion, making it one of the world's most modern facilities, offering world-class services, and leveraging all the competitive factors provided by the Organized Port of Santos.

The terminal will be located in an area that has been used for disposal of waste from the Port of Santos for over 50 years, causing the contamination of approximately 680,000 m3 of soil, which BTP will now be treating and decontaminating before building the new terminal.

This pioneering effort in Brazil will help ensure a solution for one of the largest environmental problems in the state of Sao Paulo, allowing the area to be used for an unprecedented development in the port sector in terms of its socioeconomic and environmental sustainability.