The Docas do Rio (CDRJ) company, which manages the ports of Rio de Janeiro, Itaguaí, Niterói, and Angra dos Reis, handled a total of 57.18 million tons of cargo this year, outnumbering – by November – the entirety of volumes in 2019 and 2020. With such results, the Port Authority fulfilled the expectation of invoicing R$1 billion in 2021 even before December numbers are taken into consideration. Year-to-date sales – from January to November – have shown an increase of 71.3% over the same period last year. In November alone, cargo handling at the four ports totaled 3.96 million tons. On the other hand, the YTD that corresponds from January to November 2021 was 57.18 million tons, which was already an increase of 16.1% over the same period in 2020. The two main cargoes handled by these ports – iron ore and containerized cargo – represent 85.2% of the total handling and, respectively, have shown an increase of 17.6% and 12% in the 2021 x 2020 comparison.
Source: Datamar News