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SantosHoustontrade lane.

Santos to Houston is a core South America-US Gulf corridor handling agricultural products, coffee, sugar, pulp and paper, specialty chemicals, and steel. Santos is Brazil's largest port and the gateway for Sao Paulo state's industrial and agribusiness exports. Houston's energy and petrochemical complex makes the lane particularly relevant for chemical and industrial cargo flows in both directions.

What we track

Inside the SantosHouston lane page.

Top shippers
Ranked by TTM TEU

The 25 importers moving the most volume on Santos → Houston, refreshed daily as new BOLs file. Each links to a full company profile with verified buyer contacts.

Carrier mix
Lane share by SCAC

Which carriers handle this lane and at what share. Useful for spotting displacement signals when an importer's mix shifts.

Monthly trend
12-month TEU curve

Volume month-over-month with peak / trough flags. Pulse Coach pings you when the trend deviates >15% from the trailing baseline.

HS mix
What's on the boat

Top HS chapters moving on this lane. Customs brokers and BD reps use this to prospect by commodity fit.

Port pairs
Origin × destination splits

Many corridors are multi-port. We surface the dominant origin × destination pairs and where activity is shifting.

YoY change
Year-over-year delta

Lane volume vs same period last year, with seasonality normalized — so you can tell trend from cycle.

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Origin
BR
Santos
Brazil· BRSSZ
Destination
US
Houston
United States· USHOU
How sales teams use lane data

Three plays freight reps run on SantosHouston.

Play 01

Prospect by corridor fit

Save the lane as your ICP. New importers shipping Santos → Houston feed your queue automatically. Reach them with shipment-grounded outreach in days, not months.

Play 02

Time outreach to volume shifts

Pulse Coach pings you when an account's TEU on this lane jumps >15% or a top shipper drops a carrier. That's your buying-signal moment — not a quarterly QBR.

Play 03

Compete on carrier displacement

Watch carrier mix changes. When a BCO swaps a 2M+ carrier off this lane, it's often because the relationship cracked. Be the second call they take.

Watch this lane

Get pinged when Santos → Houston shifts.

Save the lane, set your filters, and Pulse Coach surfaces every meaningful change in TEU, carriers, and shipper mix.