The Port of Tubarão in Vitória has received Vale Rio de Janeiro, a Very Large Ore Carrier (VLOC) which is capable of transporting 400,000 metric tons of iron ore. The docking of this vessel marks the first stage in Vale’s project in Espírito Santo to receive the world’s largest ore carriers. Vale has been studying [...]
Business Monitor International’s Brazil Shipping Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, shipping associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on Brazil’s shipping industry. BMI believes 2012 will be another year of strong growth for Brazilian ports. The sector experienced growth of 7.1% in total tonnage throughput in H111. [...]
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC), the premier organisation representing the private dredging industry, is organising for the very first time the IADC International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation in Recife, Brazil from 19 to 23 March 2012. Participants will have the unique opportunity to visit the on-going dredging project at the Port of [...]
Each year the International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) organises International Seminar on Dredging and Reclamation in various parts of the world. This intensive week-long course has been successfully presented in Delft, Singapore, Dubai, Buenos Aires, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Mexico. Now at the request of interested parties, it will be coming to Recife, Brazil [...]
Brazil’s federal government will renegotiate contracts with ports that have administration delegated to states, municipalities and the… (portstrategy) Source: portstrategy, October 31, 2011;
Brazil’s special ports department (SEP) has launched a 104mn-real (US$58.8mn) tender to dredge access channels to the port of Vitória in the… (bnamericas) Source: bnamericas, October 19, 2011;
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has provided $80 million for the expansion of the Tecon Salvador container terminal. (portworld) Source: portworld, September 26, 2011
Van Oord has been awarded two dredging projects in the port of Suape, Brazil. Together the two contracts are worth more than EUR 165 million. The client is Suape Complexo Industrial Portuario Governador Eraldo Gueiros, the port authority for the State of Pernambuco. Work on the two projects is scheduled to begin in late 2011. [...]
Wilson Sons subsidiary Tecon Salvador has signed an $80m loan agreement with International Finance Corporation to finance the expansion… (ibtimes) Source: ibtimes, September 14, 2011
Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has signed a letter of intent to allocate 900mn reais (US$526mn) in federal funding for improvements to the Tietê-Paraná waterway. The project aims to build 2,400km of navigable waterway through work including dredging, improvements to locks and channeling work, according to a release from the presidential office. The initiative will be [...]
