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February 26, 2025
Transpetro is the logistics division of Brazil's Petrobras. It reported on Wednesday a 74% rise in its net profit in 2024. This was despite the fact that the parent company's profit dropped due to non-recurring incidents in the period. Transpetro…
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February 26, 2025
In the last few weeks, a group of Brazilian transgenders women has been learning the samba as they prepare for the Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro. The women will be leading the last section of a parade in support of Paraiso do Tuiuti samba school…
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February 22, 2025
Transpetro is the logistics division of Brazil's Petrobras. It will launch an auction for four new tanks around 2025. Transpetro's chief Sergio Bacci said that the company hopes to include nine more in its strategic plan from 2026-2030. Bacci…
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February 21, 2025
Two sources familiar with the matter have confirmed that Brazil's state oil company Petrobras may cancel a tender for a production, storage and offloading vessel from India's Shapoorji pallonji Energy. Sources claim that the state-run company…
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February 17, 2025
Transpetro is a unit of Brazil’s state-run Petrobras. It has launched an international bid to contract eight tankers, and will launch another 13 by the end next year. The tenders form part of ongoing plans for Transpetro to renew its fleet and boost the country's shipping sector.
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February 17, 2025
Transpetro is a unit of Brazil’s state-run Petrobras. It has announced a tender to contract eight gas tankers, as part of its ongoing plans to replace the vessel fleet. Transpetro said that this move would triple its capacity to transport LPG and enable it to move Ammonia.
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February 13, 2025
In a dramatic video, a humpback whale briefly sucked a kayaker into its mouth before spitting it out. Last weekend, the kayaker Adrian Simancas was with his father in the waters off Punta Arenas when the whale surfaced, scooping him up into its mouth.
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February 2, 2025
Marco Rubio, the top Trump administration diplomat, began his first overseas visit to Panama on Sunday. He was scheduled to meet Panamanian president Jose Raul Mulino and discuss U.S. concern about Chinese companies that could affect U.S. shipping…
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January 31, 2025
Mauricio Clever-Carone, U.S. Special Envoy for Latin America said that China's presence near the Panama Canal was a concern to Panama's national security, just days before the top U.S. diplomat Marco Rubio visited the country. Rubio is scheduled to depart for his first overseas trip on Saturday.
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January 31, 2025
Kazmunaigaz, a subsidiary of Kazmunaigaz Group (KMG), awarded Geneva-based BGN up 520,000 metric tonnes per month of CPC Blend in an auction for supply until 2025. Sources say that KMG sold CPC Blend Oil sourced from Tengizchevroil - an operator…
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January 30, 2025
Rumo, a Brazilian logistics company, said that a conveyor belt in a major grain transshipment facility in Mato Grosso caught fire at the early hours of Thursday morning. The fire happened at a busy season when Brazil harvests a large soybean crop and starts shipping it to China.
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January 27, 2025
France is facing its worst wheat exports for decades due to a rift between Algeria and the European Union, a slump in Chinese demand, as well as a poor harvest. The French farmers who protested in the beginning of this year against falling incomes…
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January 14, 2025
Bretana crude, a niche oil from Peru, is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. The first cargo was discharged in the U.S. Gulf Coast last month. U.S. refiners are looking for alternatives to Mexican heavy crude. Bretana is a heavy…
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January 13, 2025
SailGP crews are tackling the new "T-foils", which have a higher speed, for the first in Auckland this weekend. This follows a successful outing of training on Monday. The L-shaped foils that have been in use since the league's start in 2019…
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January 7, 2025
Published a special report based on leaked emails last year that showed how Iranian oil company Sahara Thunder moved around the globe. The story shows the journeys of tankers carrying Iranian crude oil and the methods they use to avoid detection.
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January 7, 2025
refinery and pipeline changes reshuffled trade routes. and providers and purchasers split into areas. exports to Europe declined and more U.S. oil went to Europe. been rerouted to India and China. have shut in Europe in the middle of ongoing attacks on Red Sea shipping.
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January 3, 2025
Venezuelan oil exports increased 10.5% in the last year, despite the political instability of the country and the changes made to the U.S. sanction regime. This was due to partners of the state oil company PDVSA taking more cargoes with licenses issued by Washington.
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December 16, 2024
Szabolcs WEORE, New Europe Hungarian skipper, has pulled out from the Vendee globe due to irreparable damages to his boat. Organisers of the solo non-stop unassisted sailing around the world competition announced this on Monday. Weores' IMOCA shroud…
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December 16, 2024
Dec 16 - The shattered mast of British sailor PipHare has ended his bid to complete a second Vendee Globe, a 24,000-mile race. The 50-year old woman dismasted the 60ft boat Medallia, about 800 nautical miles south-west of Australia. This ended a solo trip that began on November 10.
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December 11, 2024
A group of animal feed importers in Thailand purchased approximately 63,000 metric tonnes of animal feed wheat during a Wednesday closing tender that sought up to 120,000 metric tons, European traders reported. The price was estimated to be…
