#time­lapse #brazil #sea­far­er The Port of San­tos is in the city of San­tos, state of São Paulo, Brazil. As of 2006, it is the bus­i­est con­tain­er port in Latin Amer­i­ca. In 2016, it was con­sid­ered the 39th largest port in the world for con­tain­er han­dling, and the 35th per ton, ac­cord­ing to the AAPA - Amer­i­can As­so­ci­a­tion of Port Au­thor­i­ties rank­ing, being the bus­i­est 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. The port of San­tos was orig­i­nal­ly found­ed in 1892. In 1913, there were about 90,000 in­hab­i­tants in the city of San­tos and the eco­nom­i­cal­ly ac­tive pop­u­la­tion was at about 37,000 with 22.7 per­cent work­ing in the port as long­shore­men, steve­dores, carters, porters and cof­fee sack­ers. Dur­ing the time after World War II, up to 1960, the port was known as the “Red Port” be­cause of strong in­flu­ence of Com­mu­nism in the work­ers unions and city's politics.​Lack of in­vest­ments and high tar­iffs were fac­tors ob­served at the time and led the Port of San­tos to a rapid decay around 1970. In 1980, the 90-year con­ces­sion pe­ri­od ceded to Com­pan­hia Docas de San­tos CODE­SP was a big play­er in the ports struc­ture and work­er cul­ture. CODE­SP was in con­trol of most of the port op­er­a­tions, cre­at­ed a new cul­ture of work that cre­at­ed stronger bonds be­tween the work­ers, and al­lowed for the cre­ation of in­sti­tu­tions to unite dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories of work­ers. Ever since the late 19th cen­tu­ry the CODE­SP has tried to gain even more con­trol over port op­er­a­tions. This, how­ev­er, vi­o­lat­ed the work­ers’ sense of free­dom and in­de­pen­dence and caused the up­ris­ing of many of the work­er in­sti­tu­tions through dif­fer­ent strikes for work­er rights. In 1993, the Brazil­ian gov­ern­ment re­al­ized that the sin­gu­lar con­trol over the port that CODE­SP had was in­hibit­ing the ports abil­i­ty to be com­pet­i­tive and be more efficient.​They then passed a law that de-mo­nop­o­lized the port's op­er­a­tional ser­vices. It was once con­sid­ered the "port of death" in the 19th cen­tu­ry due to yel­low fever, and ships often avoid­ed dock­ing at the wood plank port. The floods in the city's area pro­voked ill­ness­es. Today it is Latin Amer­i­ca's largest port. Its struc­ture is con­sid­ered Brazil's most mod­ern. The Port of San­tos rests on the al­lu­vial plain of Sao Vi­cente Is­land in the State of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Just a few feet above sea level, a tidal chan­nel cuts the is­land off from the main­land, and con­crete chan­nels drain the swampy is­land to keep the Port of San­tos dry. The city lies on both the is­land and the main­land. The city lies on the shores of a bay with a nav­i­ga­tion chan­nel dredged to 14.5 me­ters, max LOA for the chan­nel is 220 me­ters. It has been dis­cussed to in­crease the max LOA to 320 me­ters and in­crease the draft to 17 me­ters but due to en­vi­ron­men­tal con­cerns, it has not been ap­proved by the gov­ern­ment. Major cargo types han­dled by the Port of San­tos in­clude cof­fee, sugar, cot­ton, or­anges, wheat, corn, soy, cit­rus juices and pulp, al­co­hol, paper, fer­til­iz­er, coal, and ve­hi­cles. The Port of San­tos is Brazil's largest port, and is the largest port in South Amer­i­ca. Today, the Port of San­tos han­dles well over 120 mil­lion tons of cargo per year. Al­most all of Sao Paulo's in­dus­tri­al base is lo­cat­ed less than 200 kilo­me­ters (124.3 miles) from the Port of San­tos. The Port of San­tos' pri­ma­ry area of in­flu­ence in­cludes the States of Sao Paulo, Goias, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, and Mato Grosso do Sul. Music from #In­Au­dio: https://​inaudio.​org/​ Track Name.​inaudio - In­frac­tion Mu­sic- Big Sky