Ponta da Madeira

Maranhão, Brazil · industrial

Photo: Marcos Soares, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and cropped.

Ponta da Madeira is a Brazilian private port, a large iron ore loading port in São Luís, in the Northern part of Brazil, and one of the few terminals in the country suited for the ultra large Valemax ships. In 2020, the port of Ponta da Madeira handled 190.1 million tons. It's the national champion in cargo handling.

Text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), shortened.

Type
industrial
Coordinates
-2.5667, -44.3833

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