Among them is Tecon Santos, the largest container handler in Brazil and Latin America in yearly average with 80 MPH (movements per hour), which is located on the left margin of the Port of Santos, administered by the Companhia Docas do Estado de São Paulo (CODESP) under supervision of the Special Ports Department (SEP/PR), which is responsible for most of the incoming and outgoing flow of goods in Brazil.

Due to a corporate restructuring, the holding Santos Brasil Participações S/A is born with shares publicly traded on the São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa), offering port and logistics services throughout the country.

Through the Permission to Use - TPU instrument, the company begins to operate the TEV, Vehicle Terminal, at the Port of Santos.

In the same year it wins the right to administer Tecon Vila do Conde at Vila do Conde Port in Barcarena, Pará Tecon Santos, which is operated by the company, receives the first Super Post-Panamax container cranes (super cranes on rails that run along the docks and are able to move two 40-foot containers simultaneously) on the American continent.

Through its subsidiary Union Armazenagem e Operações Portuária S.A., the company wins the bid to lease the Vehicle Terminal - TEV.

The area was purchased where today the Jaguaré DC is located on the west side of the city of São Paulo.

In the same year, the terminal breaks another record in the Brazilian port sector, this time in handling: 105,000 containers in a single month.

Since 2011 it has offered to young people from Santos openings for vocational courses recognized by MEC in port and logistics areas.

In Santos, other work is carried out in partnership with various entities such as Partners in Education, Ilos Institute, and Warriors Without Weapons (Guerreiros sem Armas).