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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 of Antonina; Port of Belém; Port of Itajaí; Port of Manaus; Port of Natal; Port of Paranaguá; Port of Pecém; Port of Porto Alegre; Port of Rio de Janeiro; Port of Rio Grande; Port of Salvador; Port of Santana; Port of Santarém; Port of Santos; Port of São Francisco do Sul; Port of Tubarão; Porto do Itaqui
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 of Santos is Brazil's largest port providing exports and imports to and from all over the world. The main exports are coffee , sugar , and soy . The port handles 28% of Brazil's total cargo and in 2010, the Port of Santos handled a record of almost 97.2 million tons of cargo.
The Port of Itajaí is one of the main ports of Brazil and Latin America. It's located on the Itajaí-Açu river in the city of Itajaí, in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. [2] [3] In container handling, it's the 2nd largest port in Brazil; leads the ranking among exporters of frozen products. In imports, the main products are machinery ...
Port activities in the town date back to 1737, the year the city was founded, however the construction of Porto Velho do Rio Grande began in 1869 and its inauguration took place on October 11, 1872. On June 2, In 1910 the execution of Porto Novo began, which came into operation on November 15, 1915, with the delivery to traffic of the first 500 ...
Further, the Port of Salvador greeted 88 cruise vessels carrying 1421 passengers. [1] The modern Port of Salvador is connected to inland Brazil by rail, road, and air. Its sheltered harbor is protected from tidal fluctuations. Two canals bring ocean-going vessels into the port. The anchoring area is 700 meters wide with depths from 9 to 12 meters.
The port's commerce began in that period with the need to ship rubber products downriver to the Atlantic Ocean. [2] Manaus was one of the first cities in Brazil to have electricity. The Polish engineer Bronisław Rymkiewicz and his company began to improve port facilities in 1892. They added a customs house, a stone quay, storage, and floating ...