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The port of Santos has archived item 2018 with new records anniversaries of traffic of the goods
For the first time the containerized trade has exceeded four the million teu
January 23, 2019
In the 2018 port of Santos it has established the own new record anniversary of traffic of the goods having enlivened 133,16 million tons of cargos, with an increment of +2.5% on 2017 when the precedence was recorded the maximum peak with 129,86 million tons. Altogether last year the goods to the boarding has reached the total record of 94,34 million tons, with an increase of +0.8% on 2017 when the precedence was marked record of 93,56 million tons. A new historical maximum is reached in 2018 also from the goods to the disembarkation that has totaled 38,82 million tons, in rise of +6.9% on the previous record of 2017.
"The result record recorded in 2018 - José Alfredo de Albuquerque has commented and Silva, director of the relations with the market and the community of the Companhia Docas I give Estado de São Paulo (Codesp) - could have been still higher if it is considered that two of enlivened main cargos in the port of Santos have had important bendings because of climatic factors and of market. Handling of the loose sugar - it has explained - has been inferior of 4,5 tons regarding 2017 and that of the loose maize has been of 1,6 tons in less".
Between the records achieved in the 2018 from the Brazilian port figure also that of the container, traffic that for the first time has exceeded four the million teu attesting itself to 4.122.243 teu, with an increase of +7.0% compared to the previous peak anniversary of 3.853.719 teu of 2017. In the course of the 2018 port it has marked also its best one given historical salary for this enlivened cargo type with 387.791 teu in August.
In the first eleven months last year the goods arrived in the coming port of Santos from Italy is piled to 301 thousand tons regarding 265 thousand in the correspondent period of 2017, for a value of 1,47 billion dollars (+18.8%). Relatively to the goods destined to Italy in departure from the Brazilian port, the Ministry of the Industry, the foreign trade and the services of Brasilia is rianalizzando the data having found of incongruities. In the 2017 value of the goods to leave by Santos and direct to Italy was piled to 1,15 billion dollars.
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