São Paulo – Cargo throughput at the Port of Santos, Brazil’s biggest, was up 1.5% from January to October from a year ago, to 110,600 million tons – an all-time high. The port saw 4,026 vessel movements, down 0.4% year-on-year. The numbers were released by operator Companhia Docas do Estado de São Paulo (Codesp) this Thursday (6).
Total throughput was 78.98 million tons, down 0.5% year-on-year. The most-shipped product was soy (beans and bran), followed by sugar, maize, wood pulp and citrus juices.
Incoming cargo reached 31.67 million tons, up 6.7% and a record-high volume. The bulk of incoming goods were fertilizers, sulfur, diesel oil, wheat and lye.
Container movements were up 8.8% from January to October to 3.5 million twenty foot-equivalent unit (TEU), yet another record.
October saw 10.25 million tons shipped at the port, down 9.8% from a year ago, with 380 vessel movements, down 6.9% from October 2017.
Outbound cargo volume slid 14.2% to slightly over 7 million tons, with sugar and maize exports decreasing. Incoming cargo was up 1.9% to 3.15 million tons.
*With information from the ANBA Newsroom
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
