Construction Begins on Chouest’s B-Port

Sprawling facility located in Açu Port in São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil

Officials representing the Edison Chouest Offshore family of companies announced that construction has begun on a massive logistics support base and naval repair shipyard modeled after the Gulf of Mexico Terminal Hub, C-Port, for its own vessels at the Port of Açu, located in São João da Barra in northern Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil.

In April 2014, Chouest and Prumo Logistica signed the initial lease for the port property, recently amending the agreement to include a total area of 574,200 square meters, if all future contract options are exercised. “We are already investing to meet the current demand of our international customers and new bids in the industry, and our unit at the Port of Açu is essential for such,” said Chouest Brazilian Director Ricardo Chagas. Construction work has been underway for several months, and the expected start of operations will take place during the first half of 2015.

The 574,200-square-meter facility, located near the growing Campos Basin, will house 10 covered slips: nine 25.2 m wide regular slips, each with two 25-ton overhead cranes, and one 38.4 m wide heavy lift slip with two 100-ton overhead cranes.

In addition to the covered slips, the straight docks provide more than 525 linear meters, which can easily accommodate five large platform supply vessels (PSVs)

B-Port’s repair area, located in the south breakwater of Açu Port’s Terminal 2, will feature a floating drydock with a lifting capacity of 13,700 metric tons. Inside and out, B-Port can fully support 15 vessels simultaneously.

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