SAO PAULO - Brazil will gain a new grains terminal in its booming northeast export corridor, to be built by the WTorres Group, the port ministry said on Wednesday. Port Minister Helder Barbalho will sign a contract for 780 million reais ($195 million)of investment in Maranhão state with WPR São Luís Gestão de Portos e Terminais, controlled by the WTorres Group, the ministry said in a statement. Newspaper Valor Economico reported the terminal would have an annual capacity to move 24.8 million tonnes of cargo. New ports in the north like Itaqui in Maranhão state and Vila do Conde in Para shipped 9.5 million tonnes of soybeans in 2015, cereal exporters association Anec said on Tuesday. That amount is expected to increase in 2016 with Brazil’s main port of Santos at full capacity and rains triggered by the El Nino climate phenomenon slowing loading in the south, Anec said. Brazil is the world’s top soybean exporter and No. 2 corn exporter. ($1 = 4 reais)