Long before MS Volendam had arrived in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil on Friday, February 17, 2023, Uncle Larry had his priorities established. Santos is the biggest seaport in Latin America and is located about 19 miles from the capital of the state of São Paulo, you guessed it, the metropolis of São Paulo. São Paulo, with about 12.5 million people, is the most populous city in Brazil. Most of the goods going to and from São Paulo make their way through Santos. Santos handled 96 million tons of cargo in 2010 worth $4.36 billion U.S. dollars. The top four products exported from Santos were raw sugar (23% of total exports), refined petroleum (16%), coffee (15%), and soybeans (13%). The export of coffee at the turn of the twentieth Century, essentially, gave rise to the city itself
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