Transbrasa Group presents the Santos + Vivo project for the Port of Santos

Proposal aims to install a new passenger terminal at the Port of Santos and three new berths for cruise ships

Transbrasa Group Vice President Bayard Umbuzeiro Neto gave a presentation on Santos + Vivo, a future tourism and maritime project that includes a second cruise terminal at the Port of Santos (SP). The proposal was presented this Tuesday (28), during the Brasil Export Forum, held in Brasília.

Santos + Vivo plans to build a waterfront that will run parallel to the port complex's navigation channel, like an artificial island to be built in the Ponta da Praia neighborhood.

Three cruise ship berths, a passenger terminal, a marina, a convention center, a hotel, a shopping mall, and an office building are planned. Private investments are expected to total R$1.2 billion.

The project, in the form of an IPTur (Port Tourism Facility), was approved by the Ministry of Ports and Airports. According to Bayard, the project's approval was the realization of a big dream.

"It's a project that has been maturing over the last 20 years, conceived by the president of Transbrasa, Bayard Umbuzeiro Filho, my father. It's a vision of entrepreneurship, sustainability, and complete confidence in Brazil," said the company's vice president.

The executive stated that the future terminal will meet the high demand in the cruise segment on the São Paulo coast. A study commissioned by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation projects that the number of cruise passengers per year at the Port of Santos will exceed 3 million over the next ten years. In the 2023/2024 season, Concais reached just over 1 million passengers.