Port of Santos

The Port of Santos is the port city of Santos. It is the largest port in Brazil and after movement of goods also the largest port in Latin America ( as of 2011). Due to its small distance of about 70 km to the third-largest city in the world, São Paulo, is the most important port of entry for raw materials and goods for the city and state of São Paulo dar.

  • 3.1 Cargo handling
  • 3.2 Passenger Shipping

History

The port of Santos was inaugurated on 2 February 1892. In the course of increasing coffee production since the 1850s in the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais by the global demand for coffee steadily increasing the construction of a port for better development of the world market was required. With the commissioning of São Paulo Railway in 1867, which connects the plateau of São Paulo over the coastal mountains to the plains of Santos, the infrastructural basis for a port in the Bay of Santos was created. Over time, the port grew and various other goods were now turned, such as sugar, citrus fruits, cotton, fertilizers, coal, wheat, soy and automobiles.

Structure of the port area

Infrastructure

The port of Santos has 13 km quay wall and has an area of ​​780 ha port use the port has 59 berths.

Economy

The port is mainly operated as a transshipment point. There are transhipped both cargo ( container) as well as bulk. In addition, the port is also used as a focal point for cruise ships.

Cargo handling

In 2010, goods were handled in record high of 96,025,258 tons. Thus, the port recorded compared to 2009 with an envelope 83,194,129 tons, a growth of 15.4%. Also, the container port recorded with 2,722,225 folded standard containers ( TEU), an increase compared to 2009 ( 2,252,188 TEUs) of 19.8 %. The 2010 most handled bulk cargoes were:

  • Sugar with 19,453,119 tons
  • Soybeans with 8,370,843 tons
  • Corn with 5.558 million tons
  • 3,927,947 tons of coal with
  • Fertilizers with 2,261,036 tons

Here, 66.8 % of goods handled for export were determined.

Passenger shipping

2010 977,000 passengers visited the port with cruise ships. The harbor was an average of 284 times visited by 20 different cruise ships in 2010.

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