Pará state prosecutors demanded that the city of Belém, in Brazil, perform “immediate” dredging in the channels of the Una Bay. The body of public prosecutors, also known as the Ministério Público do Pará (MPPA), requested on July 15 that the municipality present a short, medium and long-term emergency plan… Read More
The Santa Catarina state-owned Port Administrator for the Port of São Francisco do Sul, in southern Brazil (APSFS), which manages single purpose venture (SPV) SCPar Porto de São Francisco do Sul SA, plans to release a deepening dredging tender for the local port near the local Babitonga… Read More
Dredging at the Brazilian Port of Vitória, in the city of same name in Espírito Santo state, increased the port’s access channel from 10.6 meters (34.7 feet) during high tides to 12.5 meters (41 feet), said port authority Companhia Docas do Espírito Santo (CODESA) in early August. The port’s access… Read More
Brazil has about 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers) of navigable waterways, but less than half of it – about 11,800 miles – is actually usable, according to data from the nation’s Ministry of Transports, Ports and Civil Aviation (MTPAC). Last year, Brazil moved more than 57.3 million tons of cargos through… Read More
Brazil’s National Department of Transports Infrastructure, DNIT, said in mid-June that dredging at the local Madeira River, a 1.4 million-square-meter affluent located between the country’s north states of Amazonas and Rondônia, has resumed. The BRL 68.7 million ($17.8 million) project was awarded last year to the JEED-EPC consortium, a partnership… Read More
Brazil has further advanced discussions about the proper dredging modeling for the nation’s port of Santos. Latin America’s busiest port has struggled in the past to keep dredging, following delayed contracts and legal disputes involving Brazil’s EEL Infraestruturas and more recently a consortium made up of Van Oord and Boskalis. Read More
The Brazilian Ministry of Transports, Ports and Civil Aviation (MTPA) has awarded Jan de Nul a dredging project at the nation’s Port of Mucuripe, according to a document filing at the country’s official gazette released in early February. Under the terms of the contract, Jan de Nul’s Brazilian… Read More
Latin America’s busiest port, the Port of Santos, Brazil, expects to receive larger vessels following recovery works that deepened berths between warehouses 12-A and 23 in a 1,700-meter (5,600-foot) area. The country’s Ministry Transports, Ports and Civil Aviation (MTPA) spent BRL 229 million ($706 million US) to reinforce… Read More
The Brazilian Ministry of Transports, Ports and Civil Aviation (MTPA) has included Maranhao state-run Port Administrator Companhia Docas do Maranhao (Codomar) in a nation’s concessions program, also known as the Investment Partnership Program (PPI). Brazil expects to “privatize” the state-owned company, in a move to help the country… Read More
Wärtsilä is developing a harbor tug design for a new port facility being constructed in São Mateus-ES, Brazil. The work stems from a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Wärtsilä and Petrocity, the parent company of the port. The new facility has stringent environmental regulations, prompting Petrocity to seek a harbor… Read More
