Good morning everyone, and thank you for waiting. Welcome to Rumo Logística conference call to discuss short and long-term guidances. Today with us, we have Mr. Ricardo Lewin, CFO and IRO, and Mr. Gustavo Rosa, Executive IR Manager. We would like to inform you that during the company's presentation, all participants will only be able to listen to the call. We will begin the Q&A session, when further instructions will be given. In case you need any assistance during the conference, please request the operator's help by pressing star zero. We also would like to inform that the conference call will be presented in English by the company's management, and there will be a simultaneous translation to Portuguese. This event is also being broadcast simultaneously on the internet via webcast.
Before proceeding, we would like to mention that forward statements are based on the beliefs and assumptions of Rumo's management and on information currently available to the company. They involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to future events and therefore depend on circumstances that may or may not occur. Investors and analysts should understand that conditions related to macroeconomic conditions, industry conditions, and other factors could also cause results to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. I will now turn the conference over to Mr. Ricardo Lewin. Please, go ahead.
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the conference call to disclose Rumo's guidances. In this presentation, in addition to announcing the short and long-term guidances, we hope to highlight the main assumptions, potential market expectation of our main transported volumes, competitiveness, efficiency, and investments that support the figures disclosed. As previously announced in the material fact, we will present the guidances for 2021 and 2025. For the first time, the guidance now incorporates the Malha Central , which is starting to operate this year. I would like to point out that the figures are in nominal terms, except where otherwise stated. These forecasts do not include the Lucas do Rio Verde extension, eventual M&A projects, and new concessions or renewals. In the next slide, we have the growth analysis based on these figures.
By looking at guidance figures, we can see that the volume expected for 2021 considers growth of approximately 18%. For 2025, we expect volumes to range between 99 billion and 109 billion RTKs, which implies an average annual growth of 11% between 2020 and 2025. As for EBITDA, we forecast growth of 19% for 2021, and average annual growth of 16% from 2021 to 2025. Lastly, in CapEx for 2021, we expect an investment level between BRL 3.3 billion and BRL 3.9 billion, while the annual average between 2021 and 2025 should stand between BRL 3.3 billion and BRL 3.7 billion per year. On the next slide, we will look at the main market forecasts that support these numbers. The grain market will continue to present a strong opportunity for growth. In Mato Grosso, we expect average growth of 5% per year in exports by 2025.
We also expect a recovery in market share, reaching close to 50%. Note that the market will continue to grow even after 2025, which may bring us additional growth opportunities for the future. Another important growth driver will be the markets of Goiás and Tocantins, which are now served by the Central Network. In 2020, exports from these two states was 16.8 million tons. For 2025, we expect Rumo's market share to be close to 60%, reflecting the greater competitiveness of our solution in the region. On the next slide, we will talk about the potential market for fertilizers. In Mato Grosso, we achieved 40% of the fertilizer market share. This market will continue to expand following the grain growth trajectory. By 2025, we project a market share level close to 60%, over a market that will be 37% larger.
In the Goiás and Tocantins markets, after implementation of the fertilizer terminal in Rio Verde, expected for 2022, we forecast for 2025 a market share of 60% of a potential market of approximately 3.1 million tons. On the next slide, we'll talk about other cargo that also have significant growth potential. In the sugar market, we will expand our operation area with the startup of the Central Network accessing Goiás and Minas Gerais. We already have a client making a major investment in the Iturama region, which should allow us to supply additional sugar volumes starting in 2022. Furthermore, although it's not a priority, in the state of São Paulo, we have volumes that are currently transported by Rumo on trucks, which may gradually migrate to rail with the increased capacity. The bulk market has also been changing considerably.
The recent concession for two port terminals in Santos has attracted great interest from major producers in expanding their plants. These additional port projects are an opportunity for Rumo, which, due to its network and greater efficiency, has good conditions to capture additional relevant volume. The container segment will continue to grow strongly. The Central Network brings important opportunities that add to other projects under implementation and to market growth. The next slide is about competitiveness. Early today, we mentioned that we expect a recovery in our market share in Mato Grosso. To understand how we will get there, it's necessary to understand the behavior of some variables that interfere in the competitiveness of Rumo in relation to other transport modes. In 2020, fuel prices plunged. This decrease allowed truck transportation, which has a much higher exposure to diesel than the railway, to reduce its price more than railway.
That put pressure on both our market share and our tariff negotiation. For 2021, fuel prices have already returned to the previous level, bringing a more favorable outlook for railroad transport. Another important factor is the supply and demand ratio to freight. In 2020, with the paving of the BR-163 highway, logistics supplied during Mato Grosso, while demand for transportation, especially for corn, did not. As such, freight prices dropped even more. In 2021, demand was strong early in the harvest since there was a delay in the soybean harvest. This explains the road freight hike that happened in February, bringing the spread, Miritituba versus Rondonópolis, to the same level as in 2019. While there is no guarantee that this scenario will persist, conditions are at least more favorable than in 2020. Finally, in 2020, the BR-163 was already paved, but without tolls.
The government expects to conclude the binding for the end of the first half of the year, which means that as early as 2022, the cost of truck freight to the northern ports may be relevantly impacted. The next slide is about efficiency. Over the next five years, we will continue to seek cost efficiency and operating leverage, which may not only increase profitability, but also ensure greater competitiveness for Rumo in the market. Diesel consumption will continue to fall as a result of the investments we are making in infrastructure and technology. Some relevant projects, such as the migration to 120 rail cars per train, the north operation and Central Network, investment in railway duplication, among others, should generate increased efficiency and unit cost reduction. Lastly, as the cargo mix grows more in grains than in sugar once again, cost per RTK should also drop.
The next slide is about CapEx. CapEx guidance by 2025 includes some important initiatives. The forecast now consider all of the investment in Central Network, which will show strong expansion over the next few years. They also include investment in urban conflicts, which reduce the concession fee values during the early concession review process, and which will begin to be disbursed more significantly in 2024. Finally, the early review of the Paulista Network also brought capacity expansion commitments that aim to double the network capacity. In this sense, some investments, such as duplication licensing, result in a larger capacity than necessary to meet the volume plan. Because they are mandatory investments, they will need to be maintained, generating capacity for the years after 2025.
Know that of the BRL 16.5 billion-BRL 18.5 billion in investments, we expect our recurring CapEx level already including the Central Network in the range of BRL 6.2 billion-BRL 6.6 billion. Excluding urban conflicts, we would have an expansion CapEx of BRL 8.9 billion-BRL 10.3 billion, with very high implicit marginal return levels. The next slide is about the Port of Santos. As previously mentioned, in 2021 and over the next few years, we will have a strong role in cargo handling to the Port of Santos. A significant portion of our investment will seek to increase capacity and efficiency in Santos. Several projects are underway. Some with capacity gains should be recorded already in 2021. Other projects will begin in the next few years. This concludes my presentation. We are now available for the Q&A session.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'll start now the Q&A session. If you got a question, please press star one. If your question has been answered, please press star two. Our first question comes from Lucas Barbosa at Santander. Please, Lucas, go ahead.
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for the presentation. You shared a lot of important information, and thanks for taking my question. I have two questions from my side. First one, in the 2025 EBITDA, can you give us some color of how much EBITDA you expect for the Central Network specifically? I'll go to my second question.
Thank you very much for participating. Can you listen?
Yes, I can hear you.
Yeah. Sorry. No, Mariana was telling me that she cannot hear. Let's start again. Lucas, first, thank you for participating on the call. Congratulations for the research that you did. I like it a lot. It was a very good idea. Let me tell you a bit about the EBITDA in our Central Network in 2025, okay? In this, we are not opening or explaining what is Central and Northern Network, I think that you can easily reach to this number. Okay? Let me give you how you guys can reach to this number. First, regarding volumes, it's very clear in the presentation, you have a potential market and you have the market share that we can reach in 2025, okay? Talking about prices, I know you guys had some expectations for Central Network prices, yields.
The expectations, in terms of GTK, okay, or TKUs in Portuguese, it will be quite similar to what you have in the Northern Network, okay? The only difference here, Lucas, is basically, that the distance is a bit different. It's a bit different than Northern Network. In Northern Network, you have something around, from Santos to Rondonópolis, something around 1,700 km. You have an average that is something around 1,200 km in the Central Network, okay? Regarding when you got to margins in Central Network, okay, you can guess here that the margins will be quite similar to have in the Northern Network. This is a very important point here because the Central Network will share most of the operations and maintenance structures with Paulista Network. There will be a significant efficiency that we'll get here.
Is what I always say to you, that we will get additional cost dilution, okay? Considering this and the scale that we get, you can consider the margins something similar to Northern Network. I get here between 50% and 60% of EBITDA margins, okay? This is how I would calculate the EBITDA for the next few years for Central Network.
Perfect, Lewin. Thanks very much. It was very clear. My second point is on yields. I wanted to hear if you can share with us what the company is assuming in terms of yields for 2021. Maybe the assumption is yields growing in nominal terms, but slightly below inflation. If you can also share what's the expectation in terms of yields from 2022 until 2025. Thank you very much.
Okay. Yeah. Good. You split the question in two, okay. Let's start with 2021, okay? What's happening for soybeans, okay? Soybean, we already sold a huge amount of volume under take-or-pay contracts. We have a good visibility both in volumes and in prices. Prices are a bit higher, not similar, but a bit higher than previous year. Previous year is 2020. That is the case. It's very similar to soybean in 2020. It's a bit higher. Remembering that the yields change according to fuel prices. When I say that it's slightly higher than 2020, this is ex fuel prices. Remember that fuel prices are going up when compared to 2020 due to the pandemic that we had, and prices went down in 2020.
Fuel is a pass-through, and you need to consider that. For the second half of the year, although we already have a relevant volume sold, there is still an amount that was not sold, mainly because of the uncertainty caused by the postponement of the soybean crop, okay? Right now, what you can see is that truck prices are higher in the market, okay? In the market, sorry. What reflects based on demand for freight. Actually, we cannot guarantee that this will continue to happen, this peak. After the peak of demand, truck prices will go down. What we have now, it's a good sign for the market, okay? What's the sign up for the market? That if they depend on trucks, prices are not predictable. While for railway, we have a much more predictable price. We have much reliable services.
Railway is environmentally much more efficient. We are very positive for the second half of the year for the corn price. Still there is an uncertainty that does not allow me to tell you precisely about yields in the second half of the year. Regarding 2022 or 2025, Lucas, this is a bit more difficult to tell you. This is the reason that we included the slide, the chart on competitiveness. Why we added that, because price depends on external factors that are not in our hands. Depends on the demand, the supply demand, maybe for trucks, depends on the price of fuels, okay? Depends on the privatization of BR-163, okay? This is the reason that we provide to you two numbers of EBITDA and volumes and things like this, okay? We provide you a range on that.
What I can tell you is, there is one point that's in our hand, that are the costs, the competitiveness of the company based on cost. This I can tell you. You saw one chart talking about this, that we are working very hard both on variable costs, maybe where we talk about reduction of unitary consumption of fuel, and we are being very disciplined in fixed costs. This will help us to have a scale gain. What I can tell you in the sense that yields are difficult to foresee, but the company will keep with high margins, okay? When say, like I always tell societies that this is a company focused on margins, not necessarily on prices. Our margins, we foresee that they at least need to keep as they are now, having the opportunity to increase. Okay?
Perfect. That's very clear, Lewin. Thank you very much. Have a good day.
Thank you for participating, Lucas.
Our next question comes from Victor Mizusaki with Bradesco BBI. Please, Victor, go ahead. Mr. Victor, you can go ahead.
Hello, Lewin?
Yes, I can hear you, Victor.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Thanks, Lewin. In your presentation, you basically mentioned that OpEx for RTK will drop like 30% until 2025. Can we assume that a lot of these kind of operational efficiencies will likely be transferred to price? That basically explains why you assume that Rumo will gain market share in the state of Mato Grosso. My second question is.
Victor, can I answer the first one here?
Okay.
Because your voice is not that loud. My understanding is that you're talking about OpEx and basically the gain of market share until 2025. Is that right?
Exactly.
Exactly. Well, what I can tell you is that, this is exactly what I answered for Lucas, Victor. Cost reduction is in our hands, okay? We have several investments in improvement of assets. We have investment in technology. All of this will allow unitary cost reduction in the company, okay? This is the kind of competitiveness that we can work, that depend on us, that make us more competitive, related to when we compare this to the market. Remember that the company, Rumo, is more competitive than other models in 90% of Mato Grosso, for example, okay? In the state of Goiás, we are in the heart of the crop, okay? In the heart of production of grains.
Just to have an idea, the average radius in Goiás, to feed the rail is 150 km, while to feed other models is more than 400 km, okay? We are more competitive both in Goiás state and in Mato Grosso. This cost reduction that we have allow us to be more competitive. I can assure this, that this is one of the leverage that we have that will allow us to gain market share.
Okay. Thank you. My second question, in the presentation, I think that was in the first slide, when you comment about CapEx, you say that basically this guidance does not include any M&A transaction. Can we say that Rumo is now thinking about M&A transactions? If yes, what could make sense?
Victor, I have discussed this before, including this sentence. I'm not saying nothing different here, okay. I'm not hiding anything. For example, I'm not hiding anything here, but the point here is, I give an example why we included this sentence here, is when we talk about DP World, for example. This is a conversation that we are having right now with a potential partner that we already disclosed to the market. Okay. As we don't know the conditions of the partnership, we didn't include this in the next five years. Once we have the partnership done, we'll come back to the market and explain the details, and you can add easily to this guidance. It's only for this reason that we included. There is nothing that we are discussing that can change the route of the company, okay.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you, Victor.
Our next question comes from Josh Milberg with Morgan Stanley. Please, Josh, you can go ahead.
Great. Thank you. Good morning, Lewin. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for the call. I had a follow-up on the point that you had made, Lewin, about the Central Network having similar profitability as the North operation. Just wanted to ask if you could give a little bit more granularity on that point. I got the message about the synergies and the cost dilution. We had imagined that having a more diversified cargo and shorter distances to the port could have a negative implications for your profitability. It would be great if you could just sort of touch on those points and their relative importance and maybe a little bit more on how you're seeing the outlook for unit costs in that operation.
Hi, Josh. This is Gustavo. I'm taking this question. You're right. Of course, when we try to compare Central Network with Northern Network, there might be a gap of distance. Once Northern Network has longer distances. Also, a higher scale right now, but we believe in the future, we're going to be bridging this as the Central Network is going to be growing a lot. Maybe the only thing that you are missing is the very fact that central does not depend as much on trucks as Rondonópolis depends today. Because today, Rondonópolis could be 500 km away from Sorriso, Lucas do Rio Verde regions. Therefore, our competitiveness there, is affected by the price of trucks, which is very high.
In Central, we are very close to the markets, therefore, we become much more competitive, and then we can be more profitable, because of that, and also more competitive in the market. That's probably the major reason why Central Network can approach North in terms of profitability. Another thing is because also, Central Network share most of the facilities and the infrastructure with Malha Paulista. When you think about marginal costs and sometimes marginal investments, Central Network will benefit from having low additional costs based on sharing those structures with Malha Paulista. It brings more efficiency, and it brings more efficiency even to Malha Paulista, because Malha Paulista will become also more efficient sharing the costs and sharing the infrastructure with Malha Central.
Milberg, if I can just reinforce one point that I talked in the answer for Victor.
You said the distance between Sorriso and Rondonópolis, and I'd like to reinforce, the average distance between the farms or the farms and our Rio Verde, for example, our future Rio Verde terminal, is something around 150 km. Okay. If you take all the railways from Rio Verde, the average distance is like 400 km. Just reinforcing this point. That make our cost much better actually, for Central Network. Just reinforcing, give additional data, Josh, but good question.
Okay. That's great, Lewin and Gustavo, really appreciate it. The second thing I wanted to touch on and ask you guys about was, we saw that you gave some disclosure on what portion of the guided CapEx would be maintenance. I just wanted to ask you to kind of dig in a little bit your thinking there. Also how your perspective on the maintenance level, the recurring level of investment needed to sustain the operations, has evolved in the last couple of years. We were looking back on your 2019 guidance, and based on that, what was implied was something like a 13%-15% maintenance level as a percentage of revenues. I just wanted to get a little bit of added input there. Thanks very much.
Thanks, Josh. Regarding recurring CapEx, first of all, we don't think that try to measure recurring CapEx as a percentage of net revenue. It is good here because we are adding several other operations, like Central Network, and we are expanding our capacity in the current operations. We don't like the concept of measuring recurring CapEx as a percentage of net revenues. That being said, what implies the guidance is basically that we're going to have CapEx not growing much, only based on inflation, probably in the next upcoming years. Once we're going to have some additional levels of recurring CapEx for Central Network, that means that we're going to have to improve the efficiency brought by technology, brought by other investments that we already made in the past.
With those efficiencies, we're going to be able to make the recurring CapEx pretty much stable in real terms over the next five years. That's the plan, but of course, it embeds the challenging of offsetting additional CapEx coming from Central Network. We're going to have to deliver some important efficiencies in the remaining of the network, to achieve this guidance.
Okay. Thank you very much for those detailed answers.
Thank you, Josh.
Thank you, Josh.
Our next question comes from André Hachem with Itaú. Please, Andr é , go.
Hi, guys. Thank you for taking my questions. I basically have two questions. The first one is if we could discuss a little bit about the Port of Santos. You've been doing some interesting moves in terms of more verticalization, right, or being more integrated, both with DP World, also with Caramuru. If you could discuss a little bit about this effort. It has been a big concern among investors if Santos would eventually become a model like for you guys. How far are you willing to take this integration, and what are your plans in that regard? My second question would be in regards to the new concessions, right? The government has a big expectation that FICO will be eventually auctioned off later this year. How do you see the FICO concession in regards to your numbers, right?
I would imagine it's more of a defensive play, not an offensive play, but how do you see that trickling through? How do you see competition for the upcoming concession? I'd love to have your thoughts on these two points. Thank you.
Andr é , good questions. Thank you again for participating on our call. Port of Santos, I always say that we have been working hard in the last six years for Santos. Only now, investors and sell-side ask more about this, but we have done huge investments in transport, basically to improve capacity and efficiency, okay? We will continue to do that. I always split these investments that we do in, how you say, transformational and non-transformational investments, okay? When we say non-transformational, that seems more investments, okay? It's not like little CapEx. It's a huge amount of money that we do to improve efficiency of the train side, the Santos Port. Here, as you see in the last chart that we showed in the presentation, that we will be doing several investments, as like the third line of Paquetá.
Remember that the third line in the entrance of the port is a place where you have bottlenecks, so the third line will help us with maneuvers, with trains going in and going out Santos port. In the right margin of the port, there is the margin that has more traffic of trains and volumes, okay? We have the expansion of Macuco. You have Ponta da Praia, that are investments, that some of them are made by us, some of them by terminal owners, the trading companies, for example. These are the investments that we do that allow us always increasing efficiency of the port and avoiding bottlenecks, okay? There are what I call here transformational, okay? Basically, when you talk about T-39, we'll be building the capacity of T-39, increasing capacity and efficiency with a better terminal in the right margin.
There is this discussion in the left margin with Vicunha Ward that can result in a brand-new port with 8 million tons of capacity, and capacity for grains and 3 million for fertilizers. This will be ready in 2024, 2025, if the partnership happens. There are investments that we are doing at Piauí to increase the capacity of fertilizer. This is one thing that we are always looking at, okay. We are always working to avoid any kind of bottleneck. We are always concerned with this, and we are doing a good job to improve efficiency and capacity in both the right and the left side of transport. We don't see it becoming a bottleneck either in the short term nor in the long run. Okay.
Regarding the new concessions, basically what we have in the market today, you asked about FICO, but we see two new concessions that are CO, FICO. Yes. CO is the one that the market is discussing. It's something that, at least for the next decades, will not have any competition with our business. Regarding FICO, that's expected to connect the Central Network with East Mato Grosso in the first stage. This, in our opinion, if happens, will happen after 2025. Okay. This is not included in our forecast here. If you talk about the second stage of FICO, then this is very long run. It's a much more complex project that will take a decade or even more than that.
Perfect. Very clear. Thank you.
Thank you, Andr é .
Our next question comes from Rogério Araujo with UBS BB. Please, Rogério, go ahead.
Thank you. Hi, Lewin. Hi, Gustavo. Hi, everyone. Thanks for the call.
Hi, Rogério.
First one is on the CapEx. Can you break down the BRL 9 billion-BRL 10 billion expansion CapEx? You haven't included Lucas do Rio Verde extension or the renewal of Malha Sul into your guidance. Can you also talk about the next steps for both projects, where they are? I think that the project of private investments is advancing in the Senate, and if you believe that this is going to work for Lucas do Rio Verde, and what we should expect in upcoming months in terms of news flow on those projects. Thank you. That's my first one.
Yes. Rogério, thank you very much. Good questions. Regarding CapEx, we are not providing a detailed breakdown on what we have there. I can tell you here that you have several different investments here. You see that by the chart that we provided, that we include in this BRL 8.9 billion to BRL 10.3 billion, we include, for example, Central Network. There is a lot of rolling stock that we invest, allow to reach to the 60% of market share that we foresee in 2025. There are the network, finishing the Rio Verde terminal, and other improvements.
There is the expansion of Paulista. We have obligations related to the renewal. Some of that will increase the capacity in the short term. Some others will increase capacity after 2025. They are also included here. For example, what I answered to Andr é , that there are investments in Santos Port, for example.
Okay? All of these are included in the expansion CapEx. Another example here, the sidings for the 120 rail cars per train are included here. There's a bunch of investments that are included here. All of these are increasing capacity of the company. Okay? Your second question is about Lucas do Rio Verde and the south network. Regarding Lucas do Rio Verde, probably you have been following that Mato Grosso State has approved an amendment to the local constitution, what we call in Portuguese, PEC, P-E-C, that allows the state to authorize railway projects within the state. Okay? Not all the states, within the state. Okay? That project only shows three-quarters of the project to Mato Grosso, to the Mato Grosso agricultural community. This is an important step for us. Okay?
If we take into consideration the federal government side of this, we think that we may also have an agreement with ANTT to amend our current agreement that would allow us to make this expansion. We have some optionalities here regarding Lucas do Rio Verde, and we are looking very close how to start our expansion to the north of Mato Grosso. Remembering that we have plans also to build additional terminals. We have already bought a piece of land of Mutum. I talked about this in several calls. We can start the expansion by building these terminals that will help us a lot in the commercial side of our business. Regarding the South Network, we are starting right now to talk to stakeholders and to the government, and these are the very first steps on a future review of this. I don't have much to say this.
We are in the very early steps for a potential review.
Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. My last question is on the maintenance CapEx. It's a follow-up. You said that you are considering kind of inflation for the current level, but the volume has been expanding. You also mentioned that you have to deliver incremental efficiency to achieve that guidance. Can you go through which are those incremental efficiencies that you can work to offset that increase in maintenance CapEx due to the expansion of volume? Thank you.
Sure, Rogério. I'm answering this one. Over the past few years, we implemented several investments in our network, trying to reduce also the level of maintenance and recurring CapEx. We believe that some of those efficiencies will be visible in the upcoming years. We are extending the life of some raw materials. For instance, some years ago, we adopted a system to lubricate the tracks, avoiding the tracks or extending the life of the tracks. This is something that does not yield results in the short-t erm, but in the long run, we're going to start to see some raw materials having longer lives in the cycle of maintenance. We are also investing a lot, try to implement predictive maintenance.
We are using a lot of artificial intelligence to help us to identify which factors in our railway we have to improve in order to avoid accidents, in order to avoid any speed constraints. In other words, we are trying to make investments in a more efficient way. In that way, we can avoid to spend unnecessary money in things that don't really matter and try to focus on the things that matters at all. Technology will play a big role here. Maintenance techniques will also help. Of course, we have all the carryover from all the investments that we did in the previous years. We truly believe that with that, we're going to be able to achieve the level of recurring CapEx that we are committing here.
Okay. The rationale is we should have a reduction in the first years with a gradual expansion, averaging somewhere like 2020 level with inflation in those years. Is that right?
No.
No?
No. What's going to happen is, because we are starting Central Network right now, there is an additional CapEx right now. As the time goes by, we're going to capture more efficiencies, neutralizing any pressure over recurring CapEx. I believe that recurring CapEx will be more steady over time. Right now, what we're going to have is the entrance of Central Network and a few efficiencies that will help to offset pressure. Over time, of course, volumes bring additional pressure, then efficiencies will be needed to offset any eventual pressures coming from additional volumes.
Very clear, Gustavo. Thanks so much.
Thank you, Rogério.
That concludes our question and answer session. I would now like to turn the floor over to Mr. Ricardo Lewin for his final considerations. Please, Mr. Ricardo, you may proceed.
Rumo, on March 1st, it was Rumo's birthday. We became, in March 1st, a six-years-old company. What I can tell you is that, seeing what we built in the last six years, make us extremely confident that we'll be able to reach the guidance we are now providing to you. This company, I can affirm you, that changed completely the logistic scenario in the country in the last six years. I would like to tell you also a bit more, just to reinforce what Beto said in the result call, that in 2020, we took several steps that really prepared us for what we are going to face in the next five years. We made the Central Network operational, we renewed Paulista Network, we prepared the concessional fees, we worked hard in Port of Santos to make all necessary improvements to receive additional volume.
These are small examples of what we have done in 2020 to support this growth. I'd like to take advantage of this moment, to thank our shareholders, our investors for the support that they always gave us. I need to thank the sell side that are hearing the call, that have been always calling and support us. Mainly, I would like to thank to our employees that have made the success of this company in the last six years. I'm sure that we'll continue to make the success of this company in the next five years. Thank you very much. Have a good day.
Rumo's conference call is over. Thank you so much for your participation, and have a nice day.