Tag: Brazil

Brazil moves forward with its assertions that a “Greek flag oil tanker” was responsible for a massive oil spill that washed up on more than 1,500 miles of coastline, and ended up costing $47.7 million to clean up in 2019 and 2020.

Ship-to-ship (STS) operations tranfers in Brazil have never been regulated, but from 1 December 2021, a new regulation by the National Waterway Transport Agency (ANTAQ) governs such operations. 

The UK Club gathered all the latest info on the current situation in Brazil, in order to help operators when entering the country.

EDP will invest a total of R$41.9 million in a pilot project for the production of a green hydrogen plant in Pecém Industrial and Port Complex.

LPG tanker FORTE DE SAO MARCOS, docked at Porto de Aratu, Bahia State, Brazil, suffered explosion in one of cargo tanks.

AmmPower will develop a green ammonia production facility, storage and distribution, at Porto Central, in Brazil.

The London P&I Club announced that members calling Brazilian ports should note that the new Migration Law (Law 13,445 of May 2017) that entered into force in Brazil in November 2017, is now being implemented strictly.

Following Supreme People's Court (SPC) recent ruling on soya bean claims, UK Club received the below advice from Wang Jing & Co., Xiamen.

The discharge of wash water from open loop and/or hybrid Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) in Brazil is from now on allowed.

Due to the wet weather in Brazil at the beginning of the soya bean harvesting season, Standard Club received information from the local surveyors in China that so far heat and mouldy damaged cargo has been found on seven ships.