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How Much Does it Cost to Ship a Container to Brazil?

The price to ship a container to Brazil can vary widely depending on your freight’s country and port of departure and the distance over which it will be transported.

Price fluctuations are also driven by the demand for capacity, seasonality, and other factors such as the size of the container (20-foot or 40-foot), fuel prices, and carriers’ itineraries and schedules.

The characteristics of your shipment, such as the volume, weight, type of goods, and other considerations will also factor into quotes generated by service providers.

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How Much Does it Cost to Ship a 20-foot Container?

Freight forwarders and carriers are currently able to ship a 20-foot container to Brazil for an average price from $1,000 to $2,700 (USD).

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How Much Does it Cost to Ship a 40-foot Container?

Expect to pay an average price from $1,500 to $3,000 (USD) to ship a 40-foot container to Brazil, depending on the planned origin of your shipment.

Container Shipping Rates to Brazil

At Interworld Freight, we strive to apply shipping rates to Brazilian ports that are among the cheapest in the industry. While it’s possible to provide a very general idea of shipping rates, though, they fluctuate rapidly and frequently, so we do recommend that you ask us for a quote if you’d like a current and accurate price for your shipment.

At that point we can also help you with shipping decisions such as selecting the ideal container size for your cargo, and with an accurate comparison of cost for shipping your goods in 20-foot containers versus 40-foot containers.

For a guide to approximate price ranges for container shipping to Brazil, please see our table, which shows average prices from ports in several regions of the world.

Port of Loading
 Port of Discharge Container Size FCL Rates From (USD)
Miami, FL Port of Santos 20-foot $ 812
Miami, FL Port of Santos 40-foot $ 1.487
Los Angeles, CA Port of Santos 20-foot $ 1.507
Los Angeles, CA Port of Santos 40-foot $ 2.353
Houston, TX Port of Paranaguá 20-foot $ 2.517
Houston, TX Port of Paranaguá 40-foot $ 2.615
New York, NY Port of Rio de Janeiro 20-foot $ 1.862
New York, NY Port of Rio de Janeiro 40-foot $ 2.210
Charleston, SC Port of Santos 20-foot $ 2.601
Charleston, SC Port of Santos 40-foot $ 2.728
New Orleans, LA Port of Salvador 20-foot $ 4.364
New Orleans, LA Port of Salvador 40-foot $ 4.996
Baltimore, MD Port of Rio de Janeiro 20-foot $ 2.288
Baltimore, MD Port of Rio de Janeiro 40-foot $ 2.592
Los Angeles, CA Port of Rio de Janeiro 20-foot $ 2.393
Los Angeles, CA Port of Rio de Janeiro 40-foot $ 3.277

How Long Does it Take to Ship a Container to Brazil?

Average transit times for FCL and LCL container shipping to Brazil, like average prices, hinge upon a range of factors—distance and route being chief among them.

For example, shipments from Asian ports typically involve the longest transit times, along with those from European ports bound for the southernmost ports of Brazil. Freight from Brazil’s nearer neighbors in the Americas will involve much shorter transit times.

Our table provides a slightly more granular guide to average container transit times. 

Port of Loading
 Port of Discharge Transit Times (Days)
Shanghai, China Port of Santos 32-37
Hong Kong, China Port of Santos 30-35
Rotterdam, Netherlands Port of Santos 20-25
Antwerp, Belgium Port of Santos 19-24
Hamburg, Germany Port of Santos 18-23
Valencia, Spain Port of Santos 15-20
New York, USA Port of Paranaguá 8-12
Miami, USA Port of Paranaguá 5-8
Los Angeles, USA Port of Paranaguá 20-25
Santos, Brazil Port of Salvador 10-14
Singapore, Singapore Port of Rio de Janeiro 32-37
Jebel Ali, UAE Port of Rio de Janeiro 27-32
Sydney, Australia Port of Rio de Janeiro 36-41
Rotterdam, Netherlands Port of Itajaí 20-25
Antwerp, Belgium Port of Itajaí 19-24
Hamburg, Germany Port of Itajaí 18-23
Valencia, Spain Port of Itajaí 15-20
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Container Shipping Rates to Brazil

At Interworld Freight, we strive to apply shipping rates to Brazilian ports that are among the cheapest in the industry. While it’s possible to provide a very general idea of shipping rates, though, they fluctuate rapidly and frequently, so we do recommend that you ask us for a quote if you’d like a current and accurate price for your shipment.

At that point we can also help you with shipping decisions such as selecting the ideal container size for your cargo, and with an accurate comparison of cost for shipping your goods in 20-foot containers versus 40-foot containers.

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Brazil Container Shipping Services

Container shipping to Brazil is typically a multimodal exercise. After all, you’ll need your shipment moved from its origin to the port of loading, and perhaps from the port of discharge to the final destination. That can amount to a significant requirement for overland transportation.

As a provider of complete container logistics solutions, we make shipping easy for you by integrating ocean freight and road freight services into and across Brazil, so you don’t need to deal with multiple freight forwarders and carriers.

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Ocean Freight

For the maritime segments of your shipments, you can choose from full container load (FCL) or less-than-container-load (LCL) ocean freight services.

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Road Freight

When you need to get your cargo moved to or from ocean freight terminals and/or consolidation/deconsolidation centers, our road freight services, available in Brazil and overseas, include FTL and LTL freight shipping and container drayage.

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Brazil Container Shipping: Integrated Industry Logistics

We offer specialized container services to Brazil for the chemical, construction, electronics, Food & beverage, and aerospace industries. Visit our industry-specific pages to learn more.

Ocean Freight to Brazil

For both commercial shippers and individuals, the primary benefits of ocean freight are of immense value. The following advantages of shipping ocean freight in containers to Brazil are some of the most compelling:

  • The ability to choose either less-than-container-load (LCL) or full-container-load (FCL) services.
  • The possibility to ship a large volume of freight in a single shipment.
  • The relatively low cost of shipping compared with other transportation modes

Perhaps you’re not sure whether you should choose FCL or LCL shipping for your shipment to Brazil. The answer depends mostly on the amount of goods you plan to send as a single shipment.

LCL shipping is most suitable for smaller shipments, comprising less than 15 cubic meters in volume. For quantities larger than that, many shippers find FCL to be the best option, as the flat-rate pricing structure of FCL means lower unit costs for transporting of high freight volumes.

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Top 5 Container Shipping Routes to Brazil from America

Here is a list of the American from which our top five container routes to Colombia originate:

  • Dominica
  • Colombia
  • USA
  • Honduras
  • Panama

Top 5 Container Shipping Routes from Brazil to America

Our container shipping services from Brazil are especially popular with exporters shipping to the following five countries in the Americas:

  • United States
  • The Bahamas
  • Panama
  • Dominican Republic
  • Guatemala

Main Ports in Brazil

Brazil is a large country with plenty of container gateways to receive LCL and FCL freight shipments. We can arrange shipping to many of them, including the following 19 key container ports:

  • Shipping container to Rio de Janeiro
  • Shipping container to Santos
  • Shipping container to Navegantes
  • Shipping container to Fortaleza
  • Shipping container to Vila do Conde
  • Shipping container to Itaqui
  • Shipping container to Pecem
  • Shipping container to Natal
  • Shipping container to Recife
  • Shipping container to Suape
  • Shipping container to Vitoria
  • Shipping container to Sepetiba
  • Shipping container to Sao Sebastiao
  • Shipping container to Paranagua
  • Shipping container to Itapoa
  • Shipping container to Sao Francisco
  • Shipping container to Itajai
  • Shipping container to Porto Alegre
  • Shipping container to Rio Grande
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