Cargo handled in the Port of Santos records third biggest mark for August

Cargo handling through the Port of Santos in August reached 12.09m tons, resulting in the third highest for the month. In the accumulated total of the first eight months of the year, it reached 88,42m tons, second highest performance for the time period.

August’s figure was 3.2% lower than in the same period last year (12.48m tons), reflecting the 2.1% drop in shipments and 5.9% in landings.

The 34.7% increase in corn grain shipments, reaching 2.98m tons, and 76.5% increase in diesel and diesel discharges, which reached 279,243 tons, contributed to soften the fall of the month’s overall result.

In the flow of shipments, the reduction can be attributed to the 37.3% drop in bulk soybean operations, 14.1% in bulk sugar, and 75.2% in diesel and diesel oil.

Of the landed cargo, the fall was strongly influenced by the 62.0% reduction in wheat discharges, 54.5% in Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), and 47.8% in sulfur discharges.

Accumulated movement was 0.5% lower than in 2018, significantly impacted by the 10.2% drop in soy complex shipments, the item with the largest share in the Port of Santos total, responsible for 23.6% of the overall movement and 81.7% of shipments made by Santos.

Containerized cargo performance also declined in relation to the same month of 2018, with a 6.7% decrease in the volume handled, totaling 4,04m tons. In TEUs the drop was 4.5%, totaling 370,485 TEUs. It is worth mentioning that the comparison base used is the record month in container handling at the Port of Santos. From January to August, containers decreased 2.3% in TEUs to 2,67m TEUs, with a 1.2% drop in transported volume to 29.62m tons.

The Port of Santos registered, in the accumulated until August, an increase in productivity, measured by the amount of cargo transported on average per ship. There were 267 tons more compared to the same period last year. The mark denotes an increase in loading and unloading operations in the Santos complex.

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