Wilhelmsen Ships Service (WSS) has appointed Antonio Carvalho Junior as its new General Manager for Brazil. A former mariner, Carvalho brings 26 years of direct industry experience to this role from previous positions in logistics, shipping and ships agency…
Mario Miranda has been named Managing Director of STAUFF Brazil.Miranda previously served as Commercial Manager for STAUFF Brazil, where he developed a working knowledge of the company. Miranda joined STAUFF with 30 years of experience in the development and implementation of Marketing…
Brazil finally entered the solar power sector on Friday, granting contracts for the construction of 31 solar parks as it tries to diversify its sources of generation amid an energy crisis caused by the worst drought in eight decades.Brazil's energy regulator…
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) has appointed Henrique Schlaepfer as its new Managing Director Brazil. Based in Rio de Janeiro, Henrique will report directly to regional Executive Vice President, Jaime Otero.Commencing his maritime career in 1984…
Football fever is so intense in Brazil, the host of the World Cup soccer tournament, that even the main shipping ports in the commodity-exporting powerhouse are shutting down when the national team plays.In Paranagua, Brazil's No. 2 soy exporting port…
GAC Brazil has added specialist support for chemical tankers to its package of integrated services. This marks the latest milestone in the rapid growth of GAC's operations in Brazil. In the past year, it opened a third office in Santos…
2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has appointed Pedro Viana and Roberto Alvim as the technical managers of its Rio de Janeiro, Brazil office to strengthen its management team and drive business growth. Viana was the first engineer hired when 2H Offshore’s Brazil office opened in 2003…
Norway’s involvement with this South American energy powerhouse predates the current oil boom. Today’s commerce model flows in both directions in ever increasing frequency and volumes.Make no mistake about it: Brazil is important to Norway…
MAN Diesel & Turbo diesel engines power the tanker, the second PROMEF ship built by Estaleiro Atlantico Sul (EAS).Powered by an MAN B&W 6S70ME-C type prime mover and 3 × MAN 7L23/30H auxiliary engines, the delivery ceremony of the ‘Zumbi dos…
Aker Solutions has laid the foundation stone of a new plant in Paraná that will double the company's subsea production capacity in Brazil.The plant in the city of São José dos Pinhais in the Paraná state in Brazil will be operational in 2015…
Petrobras CEO, Maria das Graças Silva Foster – named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2012 – will be a keynote speaker for the New Frontiers roundtable at Nor-Shipping’s Agenda Offshore conference on June 5…
The Port of Houston maintains its position as Brazil's largest U.S. seaborne trade partner by value and weight, newlycompiled statistics show.From 2010 to 2012, the Port of Houston Authority (PHA) handled a total of 311,314 twenty-foot equivalent units of trade with Brazil…
The engineering and technology group SENER has opened an office in São Paulo, Brazil.SENER thus establishes an operating and permanent division in this Latin American country, made up of about 300 Brazilian professionals specialized in engineering…
Petrobras announce the Supreme Court of Justice partially suspends the injunction ordering shutdown of Transocean activities.This suspension by the Supreme Court of Justice, which is in response to an action filed by Brazil's National Petroleum Agency (ANP)…
Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) announced today that at approximately noon Rio De Janeiro time (11 a.m., ET), September 27, 2012, the federal court in Rio de Janeiro served the company with a preliminary injunction requiring that it…
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