Port of Açu to the World: Representatives Visited Belgium and Scotland

Written by Paulo Nogueira

Published on 24/07/2019 at 05:19

Updated on 24/07/2019 at 09:24

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In Order to Strengthen Ties with Its Partners and Develop Business, Porto do Açu Visited Key Sectors in Europe in July

Porto do Açu, July 23, 2019 – Representatives of the O&G Business Development team from Porto do Açu visited important European ports this month. Aiming to bring in references, the meetings provided a knowledge exchange and greater proximity to the best practices in the sector, which can contribute to the development of new businesses and the expansion of operations at the Porto do Açu Complex.

In Belgium, Ricardo de Luca, General Commercial Manager, and Luiz Rozo, Commercial Analyst, visited the Port of Antwerp, their strategic partner, recognized for its petrochemical cluster, the largest in Europe. In Scotland, they visited the Port of Dundee, known worldwide for its decommissioning activities.

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Port of Açu to the World: Representatives Visited Belgium and Scotland

In Order to Strengthen Ties with Its Partners and Develop Business, Porto do Açu Visited Key Sectors in Europe in July

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Port of Açu to the World: Representatives Visited Belgium and Scotland

In Order to Strengthen Ties with Its Partners and Develop Business, Porto do Açu Visited Key Sectors in Europe in July

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.

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The seemingly endless sand is disappearing: the world extracts 50 billion tons per year from rivers and beaches, a volume comparable to 19,000 pyramids of Giza, while mafias profit, islands disappear, and city concrete is threatened until 2050.

Scientists drill 8,000 feet of ice in Antarctica and race against time before the hole freezes over again to bury the world’s deepest seismometers and turn the South Pole into a giant ear for earthquakes across the entire planet.

Rice in space becomes a scientific bet for China to understand how microgravity can alter the genetics of the most important grain for Asian food security and reveal if future generations of the plant can be born, grow, and maintain their biological identity away from Earth.

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