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Port of Tubarão — Vale owns and operates this port located in Vitória, Brazil in the state of Espírito Santo. [20] It's the largest iron ore embarking port in the world. [21] Around 80 million metric tonnes of iron ore (30% of the company's annual production) are shipped through this port. [8]
The port was created in 1966 by the Brazilian mining company Vale to export iron ore extracted from the Iron Quadrangle in Minas Gerais. [2] In 2007, the Port of Tubarão was the largest iron ore embarking port in the world, [3] shipping around 80 million metric tons of ore a year. [4] Lesser port trade includes grain and soybean meal.
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]
The Port of Porto Alegre is an inland port located in Guaíba Lake in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is connected to Downtown Porto Alegre. Superintendência de Portos e Hidrovias (SPH) was established to manage and distribute cargoes throughout the State of Rio Grande do Sul .
Santos Brasil Participações S/A is a Brazilian logistics company, streamlining operations with containers.Currently the organization is publicly traded (a corporation), listed on Level 2 of Bovespa's Corporate Governance, [1] has a brAAA rating according to Standard & Poor's, [2] and it has invested R$3 billion, calculated at present value, in the three container terminals that it administers.
Top 25 water ports by tonnage. This is a list of ports of the United States, ranked by tonnage. [1] Ports in the United States handle a wide variety of goods that are critical to the global economy, including petroleum, grain, steel, automobiles, and containerized goods.
The previous institution that managed the Brazilian ports was Empresa de Portos do Brasil S.A. (Portobrás), created by Law 6222/1975 [2] and extinct by Law 8630/1993. [3]In 2007, the Secretariat of Ports of the Presidency of the Republic (SEP/PR) was created by Provisory Measure 369/2007, [4] which was converted into Law 11518/2017.
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.