The Port of Rio Grande has the best month in its history in June, with a movement of 4.4 million tonnes. The previous record had been in September 2018, when 4.3 million tonnes had been handled. The first semester at the port of Rio Grande was also the second best first semester in the port’s history, registering 20 million tonnes handled, a value 6.97% higher than the same period in 2019. This increase was mainly driven by the rise in movement of phosphates and rice, which grew 36.07% and 32.65% respectively, as well as the large volume of soybean shipments, which increased 27.35% in the period, to 1.4 million tonnes. Regarding the main destinations and origins of exports and imports from the Port of Rio Grande, there are few percentage differences in relation to the locations dealt with at the end of 2019. China, which held the first place for exports, with 58, 38% of cargo shipped, remained stable in the first place in the first half of this year with 57.27%. On the import side, Algeria lost first place to Argentina, which increased from 9.74% to 12.12% for its share of imports from the port.
Fonte: Datamar News