{"id":198223,"date":"2018-07-26T19:37:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T22:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=198223"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:40:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:40:01","slug":"port-santos-sees-record-cargo-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/port-santos-sees-record-cargo-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Santos sees record cargo volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Port of Santos cargo volume rose to a record in the first half of the year. Brazil\u2019s main port complex handled 64.5 million tons of cargo, up 5.6% over the same period of last year, when the previous record was set. The data was shown this Thursday (26) by the S\u00e3o Paulo State Docks Company (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portodesantos.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CODESP<\/a>), the port\u2019s managing company.<\/p>\n<p>However, in June, the cargo volume registered was below the volume registered in the same month of 2017. There was a 1.7% drop to 10.8 million tons. According to CODESP, there was a lasting impact from the truckers\u2019 strike held at the end of May and beginning of June.<\/p>\n<p>From January to June, cargo loading climbed 4.1% over last year\u2019s first half, while cargo unloading rose 9.6% in the same comparison. The performance mirrors the numbers of the Brazilian trade balance this year, with imports outperforming exports.<\/p>\n<p>The Port of Santos\u2019 share in the country\u2019s trade balance stood at 27.7% in the year\u2019s first half, with a cargo handling worth USD 54.1 billion. The S\u00e3o Paulo state complex accounted for 26.7% of all Brazilian exports, that is, USD 30.2 billion, and for 29.2% of imports with USD 23.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to CODESP, the highlights among products, in volume growth, loaded in the Port of Santos in the first half of the year were maize, wood pulp and citric juices. The company also pointed to the strong performance by the soy complex (beans, bran and oil). In products unloaded at the port, the items that registered the sharpest growth, in volume, were calcium phosphate, caustic soda and ammonia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Containers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Container throughput surpassed 2 million TEUs (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit) in the year\u2019s first six months, up 11.8% over the same period of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The main destinations for the products exported via the port of Santos were China, United States and Argentina. In absolute numbers, the most exported items were soy complex, crude oil and sugar.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, China, United States and Germany were the main source countries of the items arriving at the port, with diesel oil, gear boxes and other auto parts and accessories as the highlights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-198219\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s main port complex loaded and unloaded 64.5 million tons of cargo in the first half of the year, up 5.6% over the same period of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":198219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[232,3188,4087,376,4089,4090,1752,34153,2265,4088,4091,27349],"class_list":{"0":"post-198223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-cargo","10":"tag-codesp","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-imports-logistics","13":"tag-navigation","14":"tag-port-of-santos","15":"tag-portos-en","16":"tag-ports","17":"tag-santos","18":"tag-transportation","19":"tag-transportes-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil\u2019s main port complex loaded and unloaded 64.5 million tons of cargo in the first half of the year, up 5.6% over the same period of last year. 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