From January to July this year, cargo movement through the Port of Santos registered growth of 4.4% compared to the same period of last year, with more than 76.33 million tonnes of cargo handled, best result in history for the first seven months of the year.
According to the Company’s information State of São Paulo docks (Codesp), the highlight in the cargo shipped was the soy complex, responsible for 21.55 million t, up 14.6% over the same period last year.
Another agricultural product also stands out in the flow of loads. Sugar was the second busiest product, with a mark of 8.32 million tons. The result is 25.8% lower than that of 2017 (11.22 million t, from January to July), due to the option of the plants to prioritize the production of ethanol.
In 3rd in the ranking is corn, with 2.71 million tons. The grain had a lower harvest compared to the previous period and the outflow was impacted by delay in soybean shipments and by the impasse in the freight price. With this, there was a reduction of 2.6% compared to the previous year (in 2017 were 2.78 million t in the period). The flow of the crop of the product enters the peak at the beginning of the second semester and the projection is of general fall in the year.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.