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The Port of SC has just entered the direct route to the largest hubs in Northern Europe with a new line from Maersk, gains a connection with Manaus in 13 days, and is preparing dredging to receive giant ships of up to 16,000 containers.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/05/2026 at 21:43

Ports and Shipyards

Empty containers coming from China are crowding U.S. ports, taking up space for new cargo and creating a logistical paradox where farmers need boxes while thousands of them remain idle near the sea.

Carla Teles 26/05/2026 at 18:20

Ports and Shipyards

Ships coming from the United States arrive at the Port of Imbituba with over 150,000 tons of uncalcined coke, strengthening the solid bulk sector in Santa Catarina during the operational expansion phase in 2026.

Carla Teles 26/05/2026 at 17:39

Ports and Shipyards

The Dutch dredger that operates 24 hours a day to maintain depth and ensure the safety of ship operations begins new dredging in the Paranaguá Channel.

Ruth Rodrigues 26/05/2026 at 16:47

Ports and Shipyards

The largest car carrier ship in the world will unload 7,200 BYD cars at the SC Port in June, but before that, an Italian ship will arrive this Tuesday with another 4,500 vehicles, totaling 11,700 cars, 150 workers, and a 24-hour non-stop operation at the Port of Itajaí.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/05/2026 at 01:47

Ports and Shipyards

Ships departing from the United States, China, Spain, and Turkey will bring over 74,000 tons of soda ash to the Port of Recife in 2026, supplying glass, detergent, chemical, and water treatment industries in nine operations.

Carla Teles 23/05/2026 at 23:44

Ports and Shipyards

China builds at sea an automated terminal of 2.23 million m², equivalent to 312 football fields, with 7 berths for giant ships, 26 remote cranes, and 130 driverless vehicles to move up to 8 million containers per year and keep Shanghai ahead of Singapore, Ningbo-Zhoushan, and Shenzhen in global logistics.

Valdemar Medeiros 20/05/2026 at 17:17

Ports and Shipyards

India is building a 1,448-hectare artificial island to create the country’s deepest port in the Arabian Sea, with 9 giant terminals each 1 kilometer long, a capacity for 23.2 million containers per year, and an offshore airport for 90 million passengers, in a megaproject that alone could double the entire Indian port capacity at once.

Valdemar Medeiros 20/05/2026 at 13:32

Ports and Shipyards

MSC assumes a 45-year concession to build a new port with a 910-meter terminal in Nigeria, with dredging up to 18 meters, a 30-hectare yard, and a billion-dollar investment to transform Snake Island Port into a logistics hub for Lagos.

Carla Teles 19/05/2026 at 23:45

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Port of Gothenburg prepares dredging of 11 million m³ of clay to deepen the channel to up to 17.5 meters and accommodate fully loaded giant ships of 430 meters, in a strategic project for Sweden and its global maritime foreign trade.

Carla Teles 19/05/2026 at 15:34

Ports and Shipyards

Changes approved by Antaq could transform the exploitation of port areas and accelerate billion-dollar investments in the Brazilian logistics sector.

Jefferson Augusto 19/05/2026 at 14:02

Ports and Shipyards

COSCO’s multipurpose ship docks at Sepetiba Tecon with containers, vehicles, steel coils, and subway cars, reinforcing schedules that handle different cargoes in a single operation at Brazilian ports.

Carla Teles 16/05/2026 at 22:39

Ports and Shipyards

The Port of SC has just entered the direct route to the largest hubs in Northern Europe with a new line from Maersk, gains a connection with Manaus in 13 days, and is preparing dredging to receive giant ships of up to 16,000 containers.

Empty containers coming from China are crowding U.S. ports, taking up space for new cargo and creating a logistical paradox where farmers need boxes while thousands of them remain idle near the sea.

Ships coming from the United States arrive at the Port of Imbituba with over 150,000 tons of uncalcined coke, strengthening the solid bulk sector in Santa Catarina during the operational expansion phase in 2026.

The Dutch dredger that operates 24 hours a day to maintain depth and ensure the safety of ship operations begins new dredging in the Paranaguá Channel.

The largest car carrier ship in the world will unload 7,200 BYD cars at the SC Port in June, but before that, an Italian ship will arrive this Tuesday with another 4,500 vehicles, totaling 11,700 cars, 150 workers, and a 24-hour non-stop operation at the Port of Itajaí.

Ships departing from the United States, China, Spain, and Turkey will bring over 74,000 tons of soda ash to the Port of Recife in 2026, supplying glass, detergent, chemical, and water treatment industries in nine operations.

MSC assumes a 45-year concession to build a new port with a 910-meter terminal in Nigeria, with dredging up to 18 meters, a 30-hectare yard, and a billion-dollar investment to transform Snake Island Port into a logistics hub for Lagos.

Port of Gothenburg prepares dredging of 11 million m³ of clay to deepen the channel to up to 17.5 meters and accommodate fully loaded giant ships of 430 meters, in a strategic project for Sweden and its global maritime foreign trade.

Changes approved by Antaq could transform the exploitation of port areas and accelerate billion-dollar investments in the Brazilian logistics sector.

COSCO’s multipurpose ship docks at Sepetiba Tecon with containers, vehicles, steel coils, and subway cars, reinforcing schedules that handle different cargoes in a single operation at Brazilian ports.

With billions in loans, China is rebuilding Nigeria’s railway network from scratch, abandoning the British colonial tracks that have turned to scrap and creating a corridor of over 1,300 km to take the load off the roads of Africa’s largest economy.

China is building an artificial island in the middle of the sea, covering 20 km², to construct the largest offshore airport in the world, the Dalian Jinzhouwan. This $4.3 billion project is anchored on more than 3,000 pillars embedded in the rock beneath the ocean and is scheduled to open in 2035.

Forget petroleum-based asphalt: a Scottish company transforms 684,000 plastic bottles into one kilometer of road that is 60% more resistant and up to 10 times more durable, and the technology has already started replacing traditional asphalt in more than 30 countries.

A British company has installed in the middle of the ocean the world’s first floating platform that generates electricity 24 hours a day from the temperature difference between the surface and the depths of the Atlantic, without relying on wind or sun.

Austrian engineers have developed an inflatable concrete technology that transforms flat slabs into domes using only air pressure, eliminating scaffolding and temporary forms, and potentially changing the way bridges, tunnels, and curved roofs are constructed worldwide.

A robot named Walter does the work of five bricklayers per hour and can save the construction industry, where the average age of professionals is 46 years and almost no one wants to learn the trade anymore, in the United Kingdom.

The James Webb telescope spotted a planet 700 light-years from Earth with mornings full of sand clouds and nights with clear skies, the temperature difference between the two hemispheres reaches an impressive 170 degrees.