SAO PAULO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The Brazilian arm of U.S.commodities trader Archer Daniels Midland Co expects tomove 1 million tonnes of soy and corn through its new terminalat the mouth of the Amazon in 2014, the head of South Americanoperations said on Tuesday. The company eventually plans to expand capacity at itsBarcarena terminal outside Brazil's northern port city of Belemto handle 6 million tonnes of grain annually, taking pressureoff Brazil's congested southern export corridors. "We expect to get licensing soon for Barcarena, which wouldallow us to move around a million tonnes of soy and corn nextyear," CEO Valmor Schaffer said on the sidelines of an event inSao Paulo. The grains will come from nearby growing areas in Para stateand from Mato Grosso via truck and river barge from Porto Velho,Rondonia, he added. Eventually, a railway could provideadditional options for landlocked center-west grain producers inBrazil to ship their grains to international markets. ADM's terminal now has two operational shiploaders and theport has capacity to store 36,000 tonnes of grain, which thecompany expects to expand to three shiploaders with storagecapacity of 130,000 tonnes. The terminal can handlePanamax-sized ships, which typically carry 60,000 tonnes of drybulk. Once completed, the terminal will move roughly the sameamount as ADM exports through its Santos terminal in thesoutheastern state of Sao Paulo. Schaffer said his company has extensive experience withrunning barges down the Mississippi and that it planned toestablish a barge system down the Tapajos River in Brazil tosupply the Barcarena terminal. The so-called BR-163 highway connecting Mato Grosso state'ssoy belt to the Tapajos and Amazon rivers is expected to offerrelief to exporters in coming years, and Bunge andCargill also plan to increase exports through thenorthern routes starting in 2014. OUTLOOK IMPROVED Schaffer said that although there would not be any majorcapacity expansion at Brazilian ports next year, conditions forexporting bulk cargoes such as grains would not be as bad asthey were earlier this year, when Brazil experienced some of itsworst port congestion. The lack of investment and regulatory uncertainty in portshas made business difficult for Brazilian growers and traders,though not impossible, said Schaffer. Ports will employ betterorganization and coordination in shipping the record soy cropthat will start harvesting in the coming weeks. "Next year won't be as bad. Pressure to export grains willbe more spread out over the year," he said. "The problems Brazilis facing are good ones." Schaffer said that pressure to ship soy and corn during thefirst quarter of 2013 was unusually strong due to demand createdby the severe drought across the U.S. farm belt. The UnitedStates is coming off a bumper crop and Brazil is about toharvest its second in a row. "I can't call it a normal situation... but there will befewer problems than last season," he said. "I'm careful to avoidthe word 'chaos' that gets thrown around in the media." He added that Brazil's planted area has been expandingsteadily in response to growing global demand for food andproducers are well capitalized and financially healthy,increasing their capacity to expand production.