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The Port of Santos near São Paulo is the busiest container port in Latin America and the 37th busiest in the world. Situated on the left margin of the Port of Santos, Tecon Santos (Santos Brasil) is considered a benchmark in matters of efficiency in South America and holds the highest average MPH (movements per hour) in Latin America: 81.86. [1]
Port cities and towns in Brazil (2 C) Pages in category "Ports and harbours of Brazil" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The Port of Santos (in Portuguese: Porto de Santos) is in the city of Santos, state of São Paulo, Brazil. As of 2006, it is the busiest container port in Latin America . [ 2 ] In 2016, it was considered the 39th largest port in the world for container handling, and the 35th per ton, according to the AAPA - American Association of Port ...
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In 1549, Portuguese settlers led by Brazil's first governor-general, Tome de Sousa, established the new town. It became the seat of Brazil's first Catholic bishopric in 1552, and by 1583, over 1600 people lived there. At the time of the American Revolution in the late 18th century, the Port of Salvador was bigger than any American city. The ...
The Port of Belém was built in 1909 and is located in the neighborhood of Reduto, in the city of Belém, capital of Pará, on the right bank of Guajará Bay, about 120 km from the Atlantic Ocean. It was designed in 1897 and the first stretch inaugurated in 1909; it is currently managed by Companhia Docas do Pará .
The Port of Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: Porto do Rio de Janeiro) is a seaport in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil located in a cove on the west shore of Guanabara Bay. It is the third-busiest port in Brazil, [ 1 ] and it is managed by Companhia Docas do Rio de Janeiro .
The port construction proposal came from the National Integration Plan, put into practice in the early 1970s by the military government, which provided for the construction of the BR-230 and BR-163 highways, and that had as anchor of this plan the construction of a federal port in Santarém, that would make possible the flow of raw materials and goods with the region of the Low and Middle ...