Brasília – Starting this month, Comex do Brasil will begin publishing a series of articles on the main Brazilian ports, with cargo movement figures, participation in export and import activities and prospects for 2024.
The Port of Santos, the country's main port unit, will start the series. In recent years, the Port of Santos has been setting successive cargo handling records, the last of which was recorded in November 2023, with a total of 15 million tons, an increase of 29.4% over the same month in 2022. From January to 157.7 million tons were handled in November, an increase of 4.9% compared to the same period of the previous year. Export cargoes grew by 8.0%, reaching 118.4 million tons. Discharges decreased by 3.4%, totaling 39.2 million tons.
These impressive numbers make the Port of Santos the main Brazilian port unit, responsible for 28.5% of the country's commercial flow in the first eleven months of last year.
Furthermore, around 30.2% of Brazilian commercial transactions with abroad that passed through the Santos port complex had China as a partner.
According to the president of the Santos Port Authority, Anderson Pomini, “these are numbers that increasingly show the value of the Port of Santos for Brazil and also the need to invest even more in improvements, technologies and access”.
Despite the leading role played by the Port of Santos, albeit on a smaller scale, other ports are equally important for the development of Brazilian foreign trade.
They are the Port of Paranaguá (PR), Port of Itapoá and Portonave (SC), Port of Rio Grande (RS), Port of Chibatão (AM), Port of Suape (PE), Port of Itajaí (SC) and Port of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), in descending order of cargo movement.
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