Port of Santos Entrance - Ponta da Praia, Santos, Brazil

Huge cargo ships and tankers glide past beaches and green hills on their way into the Port of Santos (Porto de Santos), and this camera watches the narrow channel entrance at Ponta da Praia, with Guarujá on the far shore.

The port opened on February 2, 1892, and it's now Latin America's largest. It covers about 3 square miles (7.8 km²) and is Brazil's leading container port, handling about 2.7 million container units (TEU) a year.

Coffee from São Paulo state was its main export until World War II. Today the ships carry cars, machinery, orange juice and soybeans, and in 2021 the port handled about 147 million tonnes of cargo.

Did You Know? On the Guarujá side of the channel stands the old Fortaleza de Santo Amaro da Barra Grande, a fort built to guard the entrance to Santos.

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