Tag: Rio Grande do Sul

• Friday, March 5th 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  Dramatic Covid-19 situation in Southern Brazil threatens Rivera, Uruguay

  

  Uruguay is very concerned, and threatened, by the situation in the city of Rivera, bordering the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul state, where the number of infections is alarming and continues to grow, while the Intensive Care Centers in the capital Porto Alegre are saturated.

• Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  Brazil has a super port in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul

  

  After two years of dredging works using a federal investment of R$ 500 million, (some 80 million dollars) the Port of Rio Grande – the main port in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul – will be able to receive vessels of up to 366 meters in length. This is because the port’s new draft, (15 meters) was officially approved on October 26th.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Southern Brazil leads in exports of live cattle: US$ 111 million in seven months

  

  The port of Rio Grande in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is shipping 4,000 head of cattle for Lebanon and 22,000 destined for Turkey, totaling 26,000 animals to be exported.

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  China suspends imports from two pork plants in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

  

  China has suspended imports from two Brazilian pork plants owned by meatpackers JBS SA and BRF SA, according to the Chinese customs authority, as it cracks down on meat shipments amid concerns about the new coronavirus.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Largest ever shipment of cattle loaded at Rio Grande port in South Brazil

  

  The Bahamas flagged vessel named Bader III, which specializes in transporting live cattle, docked last weekend at Estaleiro Rio Grande Pier, Brazil, to handle the largest ever shipment of such cargo at the port.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 17:41 UTC

  Spectacular fireball across the night sky was recorded in southern Brazil

  

  A spectacular fireball was recorded blazing across the night sky over Rio Grande do Sul and the state of Santa Catarina in southern Brazil around 3:21 a.m. local time (6:21 UTC) on Friday.

• Friday, May 2nd 2014 - 09:11 UTC

  Brazil denies financing Uruguay's project of a deep-sea port on the Atlantic

  

  Brazil's economic and social bank, BNDES, denied it was intent in financing Uruguay's deep sea port on the Atlantic coast, as repeated sources in the Uruguayan government have indicated.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 20:49 UTC

  Brazil completes construction of largest oil offshore platform and can pump 180.000 bpd

  

  A shipyard has completed the construction of the P-55, Brazil's largest offshore oil platform, which will have the capacity to produce 180,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude, it was announced by officials.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2013 - 06:00 UTC

  Brazil’s next soybean crop expected to increase 9% to a record 89.1 million tons

  

  Brazil’s 2013/14 soybean crop that starts planting in September is expected to grow by 9% under normal weather conditions to a record 89.1 million tons, local crop analyst AgRural said in a release.

• Wednesday, July 10th 2013 - 05:45 UTC

  Brazil decides exhumation of ex-president Goulart, believed to have been poisoned by the military regime

  

  Brazilian authorities decided the exhumation of former president Joao Goulart remains to determine whether he was poisoned as part of the Plan Condor implemented by the Southern Cone military regimes to eliminate opponents during the seventies and eighties.