South America

More air cargo finds its sea legs during COVID-19

Escalating airfreight transportation rates and capacity shortages out of China in recent months due to the coronavirus pandemic have led many shippers to try hybrid services that combine sea and air modes.

So-called “sea-air” services offered by some global freight forwarders and non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) have been around for decades, but they tend to come and go depending on airfreight market conditions.

Mortan Bach, global chief commercial officer, Shipco Trasport (Courtesy...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/more-air-cargo-finds-its-sea-legs-during-covid-19

Earth’s Magnetic Field Weakening, Satellites and Spacecrafts Malfunction

  • Earth’s magnetic field is weakening between Africa and South America.
  • Scientists studying the phenomenon observed that an area known as the South Atlantic Anomaly.
  • It has grown considerably in recent years, though the reason remains unclear.
  • The anomaly dropped in strength by more than 8 percent between 1970 and 2020.
  • It is a sign that the Earth’s magnetic field is about to reverse.
  • Whereby the North Pole and the South Pole switch places and took place 780,000 years ago.
  • It is already causing...

https://mfame.guru/earths-magnetic-field-weakening-satellites-and-spacecrafts-malfunction/

Dry Bulk Heading Towards An Optimistic Future Amid COVID-19

  • For capes, 2021 and 2022 have a very light historic order book.
  • Scrapping has been picking up prior to demo yards in South Asia going into coronavirus-inspired shutdown.
  • Vale has decided to stop using up to 25 converted ore carriers, the equivalent of 40 normal capes.
  • Coal demand was finally picking up with China and India taking more cargoes.
  • For panamaxes and supramaxes, agro trade demand looks optimistic.
  • South American countries’ supply despite the spread of coronavirus.
  • China, the US, and...

http://mfame.guru/dry-bulk-heading-towards-an-optimistic-future-amid-covid-19/

El puerto de Barcelona apuntala su estrategia comercial en Brasil

El puerto de Barcelona formará parte de la misión empresarial que la Cámara de Comercio Brasil-Catalunya organiza en marzo en Brasil coincidiendo con la feria Intermodal South America de Sao Paulo. El viaje empresarial se celebrará del 16 al 20 de marzo y tendrá como destinos la capital económica del país y Salvador, “la capital de Bahia, un estado lleno de oportunidades y que ya cuenta con importantes inversiones españolas”, como explica la entidad que preside Javier Mirallas. Con 210 millones...

http://elvigia.com/el-puerto-de-barcelona-apuntala-su-estrategia-comercial-en-brasil/

South America Container Trades (2018)

South America Container Trades (2018)

Dynamar is proud to present its latest Container Trades & Markets study:

SOUTH AMERICA (worldwide) CONTAINER TRADES2018

This publication builds on previous individual studies on both the East Coast of South America and the Andean Coast of the same continent. For the first time, these have now been combined into one highly interested joint report. A combination of the Machu Picchu and Cusco in the west and the majestic Amazon and the tango Mendoza in the...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2019/05/28/south-america-container-trades-2018/

Ukraine Seizes $51 Million Worth Cocaine In Cargo Ship

  • Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) seized a shipment of South American narcotics worth some $51 million.
  • It found more than quarter of a ton of cocaine hidden in banana containers aboard a South American cargo ship, docked in the Black Sea port of Odesa.
  • The total weight of the drug is 257 kilograms.
  • Its estimated cost on the black market is more than $51 million.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) says it has seized a shipment of South American narcotics worth some $51 million, reports Radio...

http://mfame.guru/ukraine-seizes-51-million-worth-cocaine-in-cargo-ship/

Row4Ocean Time and Tide

1000 miles completed Row4Ocean’s ‘Year of Zayed’ is on course for a world record. (Nick Leggatt/Row4Ocean)

Row4Ocean Time and Tide
DAKAR TO PARAMARIBO – 2305nm
Row4Ocean – World Record Attempt to row 2305nm. Africa to South America. Port of Departure: Dakar, Senegal, Africa – Port of Arrival: Paramaribo, Suriname, South America.

Team: Patrick Bol, Lewis Knollman,Andrew Ruinoff, Matt Wilds.

Day 14 Report: 1200 UTC Friday 28 December, 2018

After two weeks at sea, the Row4Ocean team are approaching...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/12/28/row4ocean-time-and-tide/

Row4Ocean Christmas Safari

Row4Ocean Christmas Safari

DAKAR TO PARAMARIBO – 2305nm
Row4Ocean – World Record Attempt to row 2305nm in under 27 Days. Africa to South America. Port of Departure: Dakar, Senegal, Africa – Port of Arrival: Paramaribo, Suriname, South America.

Team: Patrick Bol, Lewis Knollman,Andrew Ruinoff, Matt Wilds.

Day 11 Report: 1200 UTC Monday 24 December, 2018

On Christmas Eve at 1200 UTC the Row4Ocean team was 800 miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean in their quest to break...

http://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2018/12/24/row4ocean-christmas-safari/

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