Brazil

Drewry: Increasing Indian sugar exports could hurt dry bulk market

Rising exports from India and Thailand are expected to partly replace Brazilian sugar in Asia and the Middle East. This could damage tonne-mile demand in the dry bulk market, Drewry reports.

Brazil is the upmost sugar exporter globally, considering that it exports sugar to more than half of the world. Yet, it has revealed signs of decline this year because of the competition coming from international market at a high rise in oil prices. The increase of oil prices make Brazil divert more...

https://safety4sea.com/drewry-increasing-indian-sugar-exports-could-hurt-dry-bulk-market/

Trade and politics split the fortunes of the two giants of Latin American trade

The two largest economies on the east coast of South America are set to see divergent fortunes next year as container operators hope for an end to the doldrums that have hit trade.
Delegates at last week’s TOC Americas Container Supply Chain event in Panama heard how Brazil and Argentina dominate trade in the region, accounting for some 99% of teu trade between them.
“Brazil is turning the corner and now looking up …

The post Trade and politics split the fortunes of the two giants of Latin...

https://theloadstar.co.uk/trade-politics-split-fortunes-two-giants-latin-american-trade/

Cecafé: Brazilian coffee exports hike

Brazil shipped 3.45 million 60-kg bags of green coffee in October, up 33 percent from a year earlier, boosted by a record crop, exporters association Cecafé said on Thursday (Nov. 8).

However, Cecafé said in its report that traders still face space restrictions in container ships leaving Brazil, which limited the volume shipped in October.

“If it were not for that, we could have reached 4 million bags of exports in October,” he said.

Container ship liners have reduced the number of trips to and...

http://container-news.com/cecafe-brazilian-coffee-export-hike/

Asian groups seek to acquire Brazilian terminals

Three Asian groups are interested in acquiring two container terminals up for sale by Brazilian private port operator Wilson Sons, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported on Thursday (Nov.8).

Singapore’s PSA, China’s Hutchison Port Holding and China Merchant Port Holdings have delivered non-binding proposals for terminals in Salvador, in the northeastern state of Bahia, and Rio Grande, in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the paper said, without disclosing its source.

 Read more on Reu...

http://container-news.com/asian-groups-acquire-brazilian-terminals/

Watch: Strong winds break mooring line

 Winds over 80 km/h broke MSC vessel’s mooring line in Brazil. The vessel involved is the MSC Ajaccio, while the incident took place at the port of Paranaguá, on 4th of November.

The video shows the shocking moment when the rope snaps and it almost sounds like a gunshot going off.

The vessel involved is the MSC Ajaccio and the incident took place at the port of Paranaguá in Brazil, on Sunday 4th of November.

Mooring and unmooring operations provide the circumstances for potentially serious...

https://safety4sea.com/watch-strong-winds-breaks-mooring-line/

Brazilian terminals to use XVELA cloud

XVELA announced that Tecon Rio Grande and Tecon Salvador, Brazilian container terminals and subsidiaries of Wilson Sons Group, will work with XVELA as early adopters of XVELA’s cloud collaboration platform.

Tecon Rio Grande and Tecon Salvador are the first terminals in Latin America to use XVELA to collaborate and share critical planning information with ocean carriers. They join dozens of terminals worldwide whose planners are using XVELA in various “Phase One” rollouts and trials of the...

http://container-news.com/brazilian-terminals-xvela-cloud/

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