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Montevideo, November 8th 2024 - 09:09 UTC

Tag: Santos

  • Wednesday, January 4th 2023 - 10:05 UTC

    Pelé laid to rest after procession through streets of Santos

    Only relatives and close friends were allowed at the cemetery where Pelé was buried alongside his father Dondinho

    In a private ceremony attended only by relatives and close friends, Brazil's football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world as Pelé, has laid to rest Tuesday afternoon at the Memorial Necropolis Ecumenical in Santos, the seaside city of São Paulo where he rose to stardom.

  • Monday, August 22nd 2022 - 09:33 UTC

    Santos outperforms other Brazilian ports, despite a drop in overall throughput

    The Port of Santos had a cargo throughput of 62 million tons in the first half of this year.

    As a lingering consequence of the covid-19 pandemic and a slowdown of the Chinese economy, cargo throughput in Brazilian ports fell by 3.3% in the first half of the year compared to the same period of 2021. On the other hand, the Port of Santos recorded an increase of 5.6% over the same period. The data are included in a report published by Brazil’s National Waterway Transportation Agency (Antaq).

  • Saturday, July 30th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

    Bolsonaro insists on privatization of the port of Santos by end of the year

    Santos is the largest and busiest port of South America, with an annual turnover of some 150 million tons annually

    The Brazilian port of Santos the largest and busiest of South America, is in the short list of government assets to be privatized by the end of the year, according to a decree published in the Federal Gazette, and signed by president Jair Bolsonaro.

  • Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

    Round of hearings for 35-year concession of Brazil's busiest port has started

    An overview of the port of Santos, the largest in Brazil

    The round of hearings for the privatization of the Port of Santos in Sao Paulo state, and the busiest of Brazil have started with the participation of the minister of Infrastructure Tarcisio Gomes de Freitas and the different interested parties. It’s basically a 35-year contract project which will demand almost 3,5bn dollars

  • Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:39 UTC

    Brazil seizes record volumes of cocaine, mostly in the Santos port hub

    Customs officials attributed the increase in seizures to better intelligence and increased vigilance along Brazil's borders

    Brazil seized 25.3 tons of cocaine bound for Europe and Africa in the first half of 2019, up more than 90 percent on the same period last year, officials said on  Monday. Nearly half of the drugs were found at Santos port in southern Brazil, not far from where police recently arrested two men suspected of belonging to Italian mafia 'Ndrangheta'.