Rio de Janeiro ports see 40M tonnes cargo throughput YTD

The cargo throughput registered at the ports managed by port authority Companhia Docas do Rio de Janeiro (CDRJ), which includes the ports of Rio de Janeiro, Itaguaí, Niterói, and Angra dos Reis, reached the 40 million tonnes mark from January to August in 2022.

In August alone, these ports saw the passage of 5.6 million tonnes of cargo, the third largest volume handled in the year, reinforcing that the state has entered a recovery period in cargo handling in the 2nd quarter of 2022.

The company’s global performance was positively impacted by the volume of cargo at the Port of Rio de Janeiro, which, from January to August, handled 6.8 million tonnes, a figure 12.2% higher than that recorded in the same period in 2021.

This result was mainly influenced by the 21.5% increase in the throughput of containerized cargo. Between January and August, 360,276 TEUs were handled in the Port of Rio de Janeiro, corresponding to a growth of 22.9% compared to the same period last year.

See below the track record of exports and imports of containers at the Port of Rio de Janeiro between January 2019 and August 2022, according to data by DataLiner.

Port of Rio de Janeiro | Exports vs Imports | Jan 2019 – Aug 2022 | TEUS

Source: DataLiner (click here to request a demo)

Revenue – The Port Authority’s revenue for the month of August, which totaled R$ 65.7 million, was the third highest of 2022 in nominal terms and R$ 562 million overall from January to August (YTD). The Port of Rio de Janeiro made BRL 147.2 million in total during the first eight months of this year, representing a nominal increase of 10.3% over the same time in 2021.

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