- CEO
- Pedro Marcus Lira Palma
- Full Time Employees
- 8,255
- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Railroads
- Address
- EmIlio Bertolini Street, 100 Curitiba PR Brazil 82920-030
- IPO Date
- Mar 13, 2017
- Business
- Rumo S.A. (RAIL3.SA) operates as Brazil's largest independent railway logistics provider, offering integrated rail transportation, transshipment, storage, handling, and port-related services primarily for agricultural and industrial commodities exported from production centers in central Brazil to key southern and southeastern ports. The company structures its activities across three main segments: Northern Operations, which transport grains including soybeans, soybean meal, and corn, alongside sugar, fertilizers, fuels, and pulp via networks in Mato Grosso and São Paulo states, supported by terminals in Rondonópolis (MT), Rio Verde (GO), and stakes in Santos port facilities; Southern Operations, handling similar agricultural commodities and industrial products like fuels and clinker through concessions in Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul, with access to ports in Paranaguá, São Francisco do Sul, and Rio Grande; and Container Operations, managed via a 77.7% stake in subsidiary Brado Logística, focusing on rail and road container logistics for agricultural and industrial goods. Rumo serves agribusiness producers, exporters, and industrial clients, operating over 13,500 km of railway lines across nine Brazilian states. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Curitiba, Paraná, the company resulted from the 2015 incorporation of ALL by Rumo Logística. Recent developments include strategic agreements with DP World and CHS for a new grain and fertilizer terminal in Santos, the sale of an 80% stake in T16 and T19 terminals and 50% in Terminal XXXIX de Santos in 2024, efforts to secure partners including international funds for railway and transshipment expansions, record transported volumes of 79.8 billion RTK in 2024 with market share gains in Santos grain exports to 77%, new funding raised in Brazilian capital markets to support leverage reduction to 1.4x, and anticipation of early rail concession renewals with investment commitments.