Brazil’s port of Santos closed 2020 with an all-time record in containerised cargo to 4.23m teu.
Container volumes at the Brazilian port were up 1.6% over the previous record of 2019 with 4.27m teu, according to the Port of Santos Authority (SPA) statistics department.
In December, the port precinct moved 437,400 teu, a 20% growth in container handling compared to the same month of 2019 and an increase of 9.5% compared to November, which had already recorded the best performance in a month with 399,300 teu.
Considering all cargo, the port closed the year with 146.6m tonnes, up 9.4% over 2019.
The historical record of cargo movement reflects the recovery of the economy as well as the measures implemented by the port management, in line with the Federal Government s sanitary guidelines, said SPA’s director of operations Marcelo Ribeiro