Santos Brasil handled over 100,000 containers in May

Tecon Santos, a container terminal managed by Santos Brasil, handled 100,743 containers in May, reaching record levels since August 2013. According to Marcos Tourinho, the commercial director of Santos Brasil, this growth reflects possible growth in Brazil’s economy. “The container sector is a market thermometer and, when we exceed 100,000 containers handled in the first month of the period considered high season in national ports, this indicates a possible re-heating,” he said.

In the first quarter of this year, Tecon Santos was the only container terminal at the Port of Santos to show growth. During this period, overall container handling at the port fell 12%, whilst Tecon Santos posted a 1.5% increase, with 218,533 additional containers shifted. The company’s market share at the Port of Santos reached 42% in April.

The following DataLiner graph shows the container throughput trends for Santos Brasil in the first four months of 2019. This graph does not include cabotage, transshipment and empty container data.

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