São Paulo – Brazilian ports handled 998.068 million tons of cargo last year, down 1% from 1,007 billion tons in 2015. The numbers were released this Wednesday (15) by the National Agency for Waterway Transportation (Antaq), whose director-general Adalberto Tokarski said the minor drop was driven by the maize crop failure.
In 2016, 21.4 million tons of maize were shipped out from ports in Brazil, down 37.5% from 2015 volumes. Throughput slid by 3.2% to 61.9 million tons for soy and by 4% for meats.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
