Container ship stopovers at Brazilian ports fall 10% YoY in August
Sep, 12, 2021 Posted by Ruth HollardWeek 202136
In August, Brazilian ports registered the docking of 604 container ships, a drop of 0.50% compared to July 2021 and almost 10% compared to August 2020.
In Santos, there were 154 dockings, an increase of 5.47% compared to July 2021 and a drop of 4.34% compared to August 2020.
See the chart below for container ship stopovers in Brazilian ports per week as of January 2020:
Container ship stopovers at Brazilian ports per week | Jan 2020 to September 2021 (partial)
Source: DataLiner (To request a DataLiner demo click here)
In the first eight months of the year, Brazilian ports registered 4,941 container ship calls, against 5,043 in the same period of 2020, a drop of 2.02%.
The Port of Itaqui had the largest proportional growth in the number of stopovers in the period: 38.1%, followed by the Port of Fortaleza (+22.5%) and Navegantes (+14.41%). The biggest falls were in the ports of Natal (-12%) and Itajaí (-10.84%). Santos, the largest port in Latin America, had a 1.88% drop in the number of calls in the first eight months of 2021 compared to January to August 2020.
Stopovers of container ships in Brazil by port | Jan/Aug 2020 to Jan/Aug 2021
wdt_ID | Brasil | Jan-Aug | 2020 | Jan-Aug | 2021 | Diff.% |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Itaqui | 21 | 29 | 38.10% |
2 | Fortaleza | 40 | 49 | 22.50% |
3 | Navegantes | 354 | 405 | 14.41% |
4 | Suape | 301 | 325 | 7.97% |
5 | Vila Do Conde | 105 | 110 | 4.76% |
6 | Salvador | 314 | 315 | 0.32% |
7 | Pecem | 241 | 241 | 0.00% |
8 | Imbituba | 34 | 34 | 0.00% |
9 | Santos | 1.278 | 1.254 | -1.88% |
10 | Manaus | 138 | 134 | -2.90% |
11 | Rio De Janeiro | 377 | 356 | -5.57% |
12 | Itaguai | 204 | 192 | -5.88% |
13 | Itapoa | 365 | 343 | -6.03% |
14 | Paranagua | 526 | 484 | -7.98% |
15 | Vitoria | 119 | 109 | -8.40% |
16 | Rio Grande | 315 | 284 | -9.84% |
17 | Itajai | 286 | 255 | -10.84% |
18 | Natal | 25 | 22 | -12.00% |
19 | Total | 5.043 | 4.941 | -2.02% |
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