São Paulo – The Port of Santos, in the state of São Paulo, moved 9.8 million tonnes in June, up 5.4% from June last year. It was the best result ever for the month. Export volume was up 8.1%, offsetting a 0.7% decline in imports June-on-June, as per the results released by state ports authority Companhia Docas do Estado de São Paulo (Codesp). Container shipping was up 15.4% to 325,000 TEUs (twenty foot-equivalent units).
The export products with the highest volumes shipped in June were soy bean, bran and oil (2.3 million tonnes), up 18.9% from June 2013; coffee bean (132,000 tonnes), up 47.2%; gasoline (146,800 tonnes), up 50.6%; and fuel oil (218,600 tonnes), up 85.1% from June 2013.
The highest import volumes were those of liquefied petroleum gas (84,700 tonnes), up 58.6%; and naphtha, a petroleum product, at 41,400 tonnes, up 632%.
H1 throughput was 52.9 million tonnes, down 1.6% from H1 2013. Container shipping, which has higher added value, was up 8% to 1.7 million TEUs.
H1 exports stood at 36.7 million tonnes (down 3.1% from H1 2013) and imports amounted to 16.1 million tonnes (up 1.9%). The 14.8% decline in throughput of sugar, the most shipped product at the port, had a significant impact on the decline in exports, as did maize (-52.5%) and pulp (-27.0%). H1 export highlights included soy bean, bran and oil (up 8.7%), coffee bean (19.8%) and gasoline (15.6%).
Imports of fertilizers, the main import product at the facility, were up 5.4% to 1.3 million tonnes, liquefied petroleum gas imports were up 58.6% to 462,400 tonnes, wheat imports were up 19.8% to 772,100 tonnes and naphtha imports were up 111.9% to 146,600 tonnes.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
