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The port of Itaqui can be reached by highway (Highway BR- 135), railway (1 m gauge rail operated by Companhia Ferroviária do Nordeste – CFN as well as 1.60 gauge rails operated by Estrada de Ferro Carajás - EFC and Ferrovia Norte-Sul), plane (from Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport in São Luís), river (through the shallow rivers of Mearim, Pindaré, dos Cachorros, and Grajaú ...
São Luís (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˌsɐ̃w luˈis]; "Saint Louis") is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Maranhão.The city is located on Upaon-açu Island or Ilha de São Luís, in the Baía de São Marcos (Saint Mark's Bay), an extension of the Atlantic Ocean which forms the estuary of Pindaré, Mearim, Itapecuru and other rivers.
This time zone is used in the states of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, and most of Amazonas. Although this time zone covers about 36% of the land area of Brazil (an area larger than Argentina), only about 6% of the country's population live there (about 12 million people, slightly more than the city of São Paulo). [2]
The Port of Santos near São Paulo is the busiest container port in Latin America and the 37th busiest in the world. Situated on the left margin of the Port of Santos, Tecon Santos (Santos Brasil) is considered a benchmark in matters of efficiency in South America and holds the highest average MPH (movements per hour) in Latin America: 81.86. [1]
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. [2] In 2020, the port of Ponta da Madeira handled 190.1 million tons. It's the national champion in cargo handling. [3]
Brazil observed daylight saving time (DST) (called horário de verão – "summer time" – in Portuguese) in the years of 1931–1933, 1949–1953, 1963–1968 and 1985–2019. Initially it applied to the whole country, but from 1988 it applied only to part of the country, usually the southern regions, where DST is more useful due to a larger ...
São Luís–Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport (IATA: SLZ, ICAO: SBSL), formerly called Tirirical Airport, is the airport serving São Luís, Brazil. Since 17 October 1985, the airport is named after Air Marshall Hugo da Cunha Machado (1898–1989), born in Maranhão. [5] It is operated by CCR.
By the Decree of 26 May 1911, a reform was approved regarding standard time in Portugal and in its overseas Empire: although most of continental Portugal is located west of the 7º 30'W meridian (i.e. in the theoretical zone of UTC-01:00 time zone), mainland Portugal adopted UTC+00:00 as its time zone. [4]