Week 201010 - 09 March 2010

 

Maruba began weekly feeder calls at Mar del Plata in substitution of Hamburg-Sud and Maersk, who suspended calls in February because of draft restrictions severely limiting liftings.

Problems of plenty. Soybean shippers in Mato Grosso say transport costs to Santos and Paranaguá are consuming half the value of the cargo.

Arantes Alimentos were suspended from exporting to the EU last week due to fraudulent export documentation.

Argentina removed truck, tractor and agricultural machinery tyres – but not automobile ones – from the list of imports requiring non-automatic licenses.

New rules for the Brazilian mining sector, including setting up of a regulatory agency, are being announced this week.

Brazil’s minister of defense said the project to privatize airports will be left for the next government to decide. The sole exception is the new airport under construction at São Gonçalo do Amarante, near Natal.

Brazil’s Growth Acceleration Plan 2 (PAC2), to be presented on 26 March, is to include approximately R$3 billion ($1.68 billion) under the “agriculture infrastructure and logistics” rubric, i.e. roads, warehousing and ports.

The Brazilian government is expected to announce, by the end of March, creation of an Export Import bank within the BNDES, amongst other measures to promote exports.