Brazil is currently the world largest sugar producer and the state of São Paulo is the main Brazilian producer pole. Despite the lower production costs comparing with other countries, the Brazilian sugar export faces logistical barriers that increase the total cost of the product, making the Brazilian sugar lose competitiveness on world markets. The lack of investment in ports and the precarious state of the roads make the logistic strategic for sugar export a gap in a market highly sensitive to the costs of handling the product. In a extremely competitive market of commodities transportation, the influence of other products such as soy, wheat, soybean meal, etc in the corridor for export of sugar in São Paulo state is very common and visible, resulting in a constant fluctuation in freight prices during land transport. In this context, this work aims to analyze the intermodality in the State of São Paulo, during the bulk sugar export through the port of Santos, using as example the transhipment operation of a rail-road terminal located at Santa Adélia, showing their main characteristics and comparing their alternative with the of truck transport.