Tag: Brazil

American P&I Club has issued an alert to inform interested parties on how the flooding in the southern region of Brazil has impacted port operations. 

A heavy flood during the first days of May 2024 in southern Brazil has devastated food storage facilities, obstructed shipping routes to ports, and endangered the nation's exports, particularly impacting Rio Grande do Sul state. 

In this week’s “Shipping Number of the Week” from BIMCO, Chief Shipping Analyst, Niels Rasmussen, explores the 135% jump in Russian clean petroleum products heading to Brazil as trade patterns have changed following EU sanctions.

Brazil P&I Club has issued a warning about the fact that countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have reported approximately 4.6 million cases of dengue this year, with Brazil alone surpassing 3 million suspected cases.

According to Reuters, Turkey and Brazil emerged as the primary recipients of Russian maritime diesel and gasoil in the past year following the implementation of European Union sanctions, which prohibited the import of Russian refined products. This information is based on data from market sources and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).

The Brazilian authorities are responding to an incident involving the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Minerva Rita, which suffered hull damage after running aground in a critical area along the Amazon River.

Brazil is a party to the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention (the Convention), and the procedure for ballast water management is regulated locally by the Maritime Authority Norm n. 20 (NORMAM 20) which, similarly to the Convention, establishes two treatment procedures, i.e. regulations D-1 and D-2, the Japan P&I Club informs.

According to forecasts from the National Supply Company (Conab) there is a shortage of warehouses for 118.5 million tons of grains in Brazil, forcing producers to store products like soybeans and corn in silo-bags or even in the open air, the Brazil P&I Club informs in a recent circular.

According to Brazilian federal police, four Nigerian stowaways survived 14 days stuck in a cramped area above a cargo vessel's rudder, before rescued. 

Britannia P&I Club's Brazilian correspondent, Brazmar, has issued a Circular to inform that the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply is looking at possible changes to the current official specifications for soybean cargo imports.