Santos Brasil rolls out carbon offset programme for LCL cargo

South American container terminals are reporting calls from ever larger container vessels

Last week the operator of Tecon Santos in Brazil exchanged 5,452 TEU with Maersk’s CAP SAN AUGUSTIN in 44 hours, with an average of 124.36 TEU per berth hour

A variety of ambitious companies are eager to join the upper echelons of the global terminal operating business over the coming decade.

The controlling shareholders of Santos Brasil, South America’s biggest container terminal group, are said to be close to agreeing a new ownership structure

The market for gate and crane OCR systems is currently booming and demand is particularly strong in Brazil. APS Technology Group has recently announced projects to implement systems at Tecon Suape SA in Recife, MultiRio in Rio de Janeiro and Santos Brasil SA in Santos. In Santos’s case APS is supplying its system through Navis as part of its Star Technology Alliance.

Ports in Brazil will handle 5M TEU in 2011, up 10% over 2010, according to a forecast from Sérgio Salomão, president of the Brazilian Association of Public Use Container Terminals (Abratec).