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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 2022, it was considered the 40th largest port in the world for container handling, [ 3 ] and the 35th per ton, according to the AAPA - American Association of Port ...
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]
Santos lies in one of the few isolated regions of Brazil outside of the tropical Amazon Basin that receive more than 2,000 mm (79 in) of total average precipitation annually, although nearby Ubatuba, approximately 140 km (87 mi) to the east-northeast, is considerably wetter than Santos, receiving an average of 2,645 mm (104.1 in) of ...
The total paving of the BR-163, completed at the end of 2019, has been increasing demand for the Port of Santarém, as it is about 1000 km from the state of Mato Grosso (the largest producer of soy, corn and cotton in the country), a shorter route than the 2000 km in the direction to the Port of Santos. In 2019, it ranked first among the 19 ...
The Bioceanic Corridor (Portuguese: Corredor Bioceânico; Spanish: Corredor Bioceánico) is a rail project between Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Chile. [1] [2] It is intended to join the port of Santos, Brazil, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, with the ports of Iquique and Antofagasta, Chile, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
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
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.
The local port was widely used to load ships with gold from Minas Gerais during the 17th and 18th centuries. It was also used by pirates and smugglers . When slavery was abolished, in 1888, and the railway linking São Paulo to the bigger Port of Santos was opened, the city's economy entered a period of crisis, and the population decreased.