AET has taken delivery of a new second generation, fuel efficient suezmax shuttle tanker for long term charter to Royal Dutch Shell.

Marine fuels supplier Bunker One has expanded its offshore bunkering operations to northern Brazil with the deployment of a bunker tanker to supply very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) and low sulphur marine gasoil (LSMGO).

Brazil’s mining giant Vale is installing one of the country’s largest battery energy storage systems to supply electricity to its ore terminal in Ilha Guaiba Terminal in Rio de Janerio.

The Brazilian Ministry of Infrastructure has signed eight contracts for the operation of private use terminals (TUPs) located in the North, Northeast, South and Southeast regions.

Brazil’s Açu Petróleo, a joint venture between Prumo Logística and Oiltanking, and Petrogal, reaffirmed their partnership with a renewed contract for oil transhipment until 2023 at the Açu Port Terminal in São João da Barra (Rio de Janeiro).

Continuing its Latin American expansion International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) is taking over Libra Terminal Rio S.A. (Libra Rio).

Petrobras completed its first transhipment operation in a non-owned terminal, at the Açu Petróleo Petroleum Terminal (T-OIL) located in the Açu Port Complex in the north of the state of Rio de Janeiro.