Port of Santos Port of Santos The Port of Santos (in Portuguese: "Porto de Santos") is located in the city of Santos, state of São Paulo, Brazil. As of 2006, it is the busiest container port in Latin America. It possesses a wide variety of cargo handling terminals—solid and liquid bulk, containers, and general loads. It is Brazil's leading port in container traffic. The terrestrial access system to the port is made up by the Anchieta and Imigrantes highways and by the railroads operated by Ferroban and MRS. It was once considered the "port of death" in the 19th century due to yellow
Cartagena Container Terminal Cartagena Container Terminal The Cartagena Container Terminal is the City of Cartagena's principal container management port. It is part of the larger Port of Cartagena. The port authority ("Cartagena Container Port Operator") is jointly operated by the Colombian Port Society of Cartagena (Compas S.A.; ) and the Dutch APM Terminals, who controls 51% of the terminal. It is the second busiest port in Colombia, behind the Pacific-side port of Buenaventura, and the third busiest port in the Caribbean Sea. It can host vessels with a maximum draft of 16.5m. The terminal has a throughput capacity of 4.5 million TEU's. It