Hamburg Süd will offer a new service from South Africa to Argentina and Brazil, in cooperation with Nile Dutch.
Brazil
11 Jun 2013
Mediterranean Shipping Co. is providing a new weekly direct container service between Houston and Brazil.
11 Jun 2013
Containers of auto parts imported through U.S. ports in the first quarter of 2013 were up year-over-year for a 14th straight quarter. Although the rate inched up from 8.1 percent in fourth quarter 2012 to 8.3 percent in first quarter 2013, the rate of growth has formed an overall trend of deceleration.
10 Jun 2013
Wilson Sons reported that its container terminals in Brazil handled a total of 77,600 20-foot-equivalent units in May, jumping 14.0 percent from 68,100 TEUs in the same month in the previous year.
07 Jun 2013
Brazil’s Congress has approved a port reform package, the Provisional Measure of the Ports, that will provide a new legal and institutional framework to increase the nation’s port system efficiency and reduce port-related logistics costs.
06 Jun 2013
According to a new Rabobank report on agribusiness logistics in Brazil, 2013 is likely to be a “very difficult” year, as a result of pressure on Brazil’s transportation and export system.
05 Jun 2013
International sugar production for 2013 to 2014 is forecast at a record 175 million metric tons, with gains in Brazil and Thailand offsetting lower production in India.
29 May 2013
Brazil soybean shipments, which are typically made through May, will be extended until at least July as a record crop from the South American nation has created a backlog at ports and on roads, Bloomberg reports.
21 May 2013
DAF Trucks has selected DB Schenker in Brazil as its logistics service provider.
20 May 2013
Brazil has amended its import regulations regarding bovine spongiform encephalopathy, paving the way for the ban on imports of breeding cattle and beef from the European Union to be lifted.
20 May 2013
Aliança has unveiled its new container ship, Sebastião Caboto, at the Terminal Maritimo de Passageiros in Brazil’s Port of Santos.
Jun 5, 2013 2:00PM EDT