{"id":8049,"date":"2010-08-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2010\/08\/25\/half-of-santos-venture-sold-to-apmt\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:38:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:38:43","slug":"half-of-santos-venture-sold-to-apmt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/half-of-santos-venture-sold-to-apmt\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Santos\u2019 venture sold to APMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is an important strategic step, as roughly 50% of Brazil&#8217;s gross domestic product is generated in the areas served by the port of Santos and more than a quarter of Brazil&#8217;s trade passes through the port.<\/p>\n<p>The new container facility will feature 15 metre water depth and a capacity of 2.2m teu when completed: it is expected to be fully operational by mid 2013 with initial operations starting in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The development means BTP will be able to handle the next generation of vessels that are expected to be deployed on the trades to\/from Latin America. This could potentially attract additional transhipment business to the Port of Santos, broadening Santos&#8217; network.<\/p>\n<p>APMT said MSC was expected to be the anchor client, and was also planning to move volume from other locations to Santos. Various shipping lines have shown an interest but negotiations, at present, remain veiled.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first joint project bringing together TIL (which operates the Portonave terminal in Navegantes) and APMT (who presently has facilities in Pecem and Itajai).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brasil Terminal Portuario (BTP), a new container terminal being built in Santos, is to be 50% owned and managed by APM Terminals since Terminal Investment Limited has just sold it a half share in the venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}