Port Of Rio De Janeiro News

The Indian Navy on Friday rescued the crew of a merchant vessel after its attempted hijack in the Arabian Sea and said it had not found any pirates on board.An Indian Navy warship intercepted the Liberian-flagged MV Lila Norfolk bulk carrier less than a day after it had received a report that the vessel had been hijacked about 460 nautical miles off Somalia.About five to six armed people boarded the vessel on Thursday, according to a report received by the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency…

Brazilian geoscience services company OceanPact Geociências has chosen deep water positioning technology from Sonardyne Brasil Ltda. to support its geophysical, geotechnical and environmental research operations across the region.Ranger 2 Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL) systems have been installed on board OceanPact’s research vessels Seward Johnson and Austral Abrolhos, both currently on hire to Brazilian oil major Petrobras. The systems will be used to precisely track the location of underwater equipment and sensor packages deployed from the ships…

With the aim to improve efficiency and quality of the service offered to you, Hapag-Lloyd is pleased to advise some important changes to the GS1 service. MSC will join the service as a vessel operator providing one vessel. The total fleet size remains at eight 5500 TEU vessels with NYK operating one vessel and Hapag-Lloyd providing six vessels. Port of Suape, Brazil will be removed. Port of Sepetiba, Brazil will replace the port of Rio De Janeiro.

Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau plans 80 million ton-per-year iron ore port in Rio de Janeiro state Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau is planning to build its own port terminal at Sepetiba Bay near the company's Cosigua mill in Rio de Janeiro state, according to 'Business News Americas' The port terminal will be implemented in two phases and will be able to export 70Mt/y of iron ore and to receive 10Mt/y of mineral coal to meet the demand from the company's steel plants in Brazil's southeastern region Based in Porto Alegre, Gerdau is Latin America's largest steel producer and the biggest long steelmaker in the Americas. .

OGX, the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private-sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, and OSX, a private Brazilian corporation that provides equipment and services to the offshore oil and natural gas industry via integrated operations in naval construction, chartering of exploration and production units, and operating and maintenance services, announced that they have revised the time-table for the beginning of production to January 2012. During the second half of 2011, OGX has focused on the execution process in preparation for first oil, from obtaining the necessary environmental licenses until the installation of the equipment that will connect the OGX-26HP well to the FPSO OSX-1.

TOC Events Worldwide is moving to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November for the 10th TOC Americas conference and exhibition. The Port of Rio de Janeiro will play host to TOC Americas from 9 – 11 November 2010, where exhibitors, from all aspects of the terminal operations industry, will showcase technology alongside a conference and a series of technical workshops. The event will bring together leading professionals from across the Americas to discuss all the latest developments within the maritime industry, focusing on Brazil’s ability to cope with the increasing strain on its ports. With 95% of foreign trade volumes handled by sea, the country’s ports and connecting inland transport infrastructure need serious…