Santos remains as the main port of Latin America and 38 containers. in the world

The port of Santos remains as the main container handling complex of Latin America. The 2014 ranking was released by the American publication The Journal of Commerce, specializing in maritime traffic.

According to the ranking “Top 50 Word Container Ports”, published by the American Journal on August 20, the Port of Santos is the 38th in world port container handlingwith the result of 3.68 million your (unit equivalent to a 20 feet container) achieved in 2014.

The number keeps on leadership of Latin America, surpassing, for the second consecutive year, the port of Balboa, in the Panama. The Panamanian registered 3.47 million port your in 2014 and is pointed at the 42nd placing in the world ranking. In the first ten positions stand out ports of Asia, getting Roterdan in the Netherlands, with the 11th placing.

In about 2013, the port of Santos had already been appointed as 38th in the world in container handling, in a ranking published by the British magazine “Conteinerisation international”.

The ceo of Companhia Docas do Estado de São Paulo (Codesp), Angelino Caputo and Oliveira, comments that the expectation is that the port of Santos stand increasingly in this ranking, with a view to the new structures available for this cargo segment. Caputo remembers that operations with containers in the first 7 months of this year grew by 7.2%, out of 2.2 million 2.0 million for your. In tonnes the increase was 12.8%, increasing from 21.0 million t, in 2014, to 23.7 million t in 2015.

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