{"id":8522,"date":"2026-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/salt-blog\/braskem-shutdown-reduces-salt-throughput-at-port-of-maceio\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:17:00","slug":"braskem-shutdown-reduces-salt-throughput-at-port-of-maceio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/salt-blog\/braskem-shutdown-reduces-salt-throughput-at-port-of-maceio\/","title":{"rendered":"Braskem Shutdown Reduces Salt Throughput at Port of Macei\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo volumes at the Port of Macei\u00f3 fell by 20% in 2025, largely due to a decline in Braskem\u2019s salt imports used for chlor-alkali production. Reports also indicate a sharp drop in salt shipments from Chile as operations wound down.<\/p>\n<p>This decline highlights how industrial salt consumers drive port economics. When large-scale chemical buyers pause operations, the impact cascades through shipping schedules, contracted tonnage, and regional logistics revenue.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo volumes at the Port of Macei\u00f3 fell by 20% in 2025, largely due to a decline in Braskem\u2019s salt imports used for chlor-alkali production. Reports also indicate a sharp drop in salt shipments from Chile as operations wound down. This decline highlights how industrial salt consumers drive port economics. When large-scale chemical buyers pause [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8597,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions\/8597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosalt.co\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}