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13 Apr 2015

Access to Santos Port Back to Normal After Fire

(Photo: Santos Brasil)

Access to Brazil's largest port, Santos, was fully restored for cargo and passenger vehicles on Monday after one entrance had been partially blocked for a week due to a fire at a nearby fuel-tank facility, highway operator Ecovias said. Authorities had blocked the entrance due to its proximity to the fire at the fuel-tank facility operated by Ultracargo, a unit of Brazilian chemical and fuel-distribution company Grupo Ultra. An entrance on the opposite side of the port's shipping channel, in Guaruja, was not affected.

25 Feb 2015

Access to Brazil's Santos Port Cleared of Striking Truckers

A main access road to Brazil's Port of Santos was cleared early on Wednesday after a truck driver strike dispersed, though other roads in the country remained blocked as protests stretched into a second week. Highway operator Ecovias said via Twitter that the protest on the Anchieta highway leading to Latin America's largest port had concluded and all lanes were cleared. Still, traffic remains slow due to the long back-up of trucks on the road. Brazilian truck drivers have been blocking roads in protest over high fuel and toll prices, poor road quality and changes to rules governing trucking. The protests have interrupted supplies of diesel and raw materials across the country and threatened to hold up grains exports at ports in the middle of a record harvest.

24 Feb 2015

Protesters Block Brazil's Port of Santos

Protesting truckers in Brazil blocked access to the port of Santos on Tuesday, according to a representative for highway operator Ecovias, threatening shipments of soybeans in the middle of what is expected to be a record harvest.     (Reporting by Eduardo Simoes, Marcelo Teixeira and Alberto Alerigi Jr.; Editing by Marguerita Choy)