“The Suzano Papel e Celulose pulp mill is the reason of the violent removal of our fellows from quilombos in the towns of Pedro Canário and Conceição de Barra,” says MST leader - Esta empresa tem sido o motivo da retirada dos companheiros quilombolas que estão nos municípios de Pedro Canário e Conceição da Barra” On Thursday morning (13), around a thousand women from the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST in Portuguese) occupied an area belonging to the Suzano Papel e Celulose pulp mill in the city of Aracruz The action aims to denounce the environmental impact caused by the eucalyptus monoculture established by the world’s largest pulp producer. The MST initiative is part of the traditional day of struggle female militants organize every March This year’s slogan is “Agribusiness means violence and environmental crimes women’s struggle stands against Capital.” The militants say they have no plans to leave the area and are demanding from Suzano and Brazil’s Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA in Portuguese) that the company comply with an agreement signed in 2011 according to which it must set aside 22 areas under its possession for agrarian reform The sun was rising when the peasant women blocked off part of the ES-445 highway with burning tires and opened a banner that read, “Eucalyptus doesn’t make a forest; it feeds nobody.” Wearing MST caps and chintz clothes private security agents from the Souza Lima company arrived in the area military police agents have not arrived in the occupied area “Espírito Santo is going through a very difficult moment due to the expansion of eucalyptus monoculture which started in the 1960s,” says Eliandra Rosa Fernandes from the national leadership of the MST in Espírito Santo referring to the installation of the pulp mill companies Aracruz Celulose “This company [Suzano] has been the reason for the violent removal of fellow quilombolas [whose ancestors were Black enslaved people who managed to run away] in the municipalities of Pedro Canário and Conceição da Barra,” says the MST leader The Tupiniquim and Guarani Indigenous villages are near the pulp mill small farmers and landless workers who have been fighting for survival for 40 years now,” she explains contaminated our waters and killed our people our struggle is very important,” Fernandes said The dispute between the world’s largest pulp producer and the grassroots movement is an old one the MST occupied three Suzano areas in the extreme south of Bahia and another in Espírito Santo 1,500 rural workers occupied the company in Bahia while 200 rural workers did the same in Aracruz Both occupations were dismantled after a court decision to repossess the land but with the creation of a working group with MST representatives Suzano representatives and the Ministry of Agrarian Development to resolve the conflict not a single landless family has been settled on any of the 2.7 million hectares Suzano controls in Brazil According to the movement’s calculations 100,000 families could be settled on this land This is the number of families the MST says currently live in encampments across the country The commitment the MST is pressing for was signed 14 years ago as a result of complaints about the damage eucalyptus monoculture caused in the region BdF asked Suzano for a position but had not received a response by the time this news story was published It will be updated if the company makes a statement In the area between northern Espírito Santo and the extreme south of Bahia a large part of the arable land has been under the control of large pulp producers for about 30 years Suzano incorporated almost all of it in 2018 the company’s net revenue reached US$ 8,13 billion Large-scale eucalyptus production uses pesticides – including aerial spraying – and has triggered a water crisis in the surrounding areas and our forests are being destroyed to expand monoculture this agribusiness model directly violates society as a whole,” says Débora Nunes What does society want for our resources and natural assets A protected environment guarantees the existence of this generation and the ones to come Agribusiness only sees the environment as profit: our water We need to summon society to debate and confront it,” says Nunes the landless women present their actions as “A way of collective confrontation against the order and disdain of agro-hydro-mining-business.” They demand “that this model be held accountable for its crimes against humanity and the environment.” They also defend “Popular agrarian reform” as a “viable alternative to the current destructive model” All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced provided it is not altered and proper credit is given All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced Welcome to packagingeurope.com. This site uses cookies. Read our policy Market pulp producer Suzano has partnered with logistics solutions company VIX Logística to begin testing what it claims is the ‘first’ high-capacity electric truck in Brazil anticipated to help remove 40 million tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2025 The testing is said to be taking place at Suzano’s Aracruz site in the state of Espírito Santo reportedly has the potential to tow up to 120 tonnes save up to 8,300 litres of diesel per month and reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 21 tonnes. Suzano hopes to reduce emissions by 20% on the route between the mill and Portocel, where products from Suzano’s Aracruz Unit are exported to different parts of the world The company says the testing marks a significant step in accelerating the energy transition of Suzano’s pulp transportation fleet enabling it to integrate more sustainable transportation practices throughout its operations. Apparently, the implementation supports Suzano’s long-term targets, aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals in building a better world for people and the planet Suzano claims the “Atlas” truck is said to be an improvement compared to traditional solutions available on the market which weigh around a total of 40 tonnes (truck weight + load) Developed from a Mercedes-Benz Axor 3344 chassis “Atlas” operates via electric propulsion and uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. Suzano and VIX Logística started testing “Atlas” in May this year Suzano will be monitoring the vehicle’s operational performance during the first few months with the intention of further deploying the alternative to other operations of the company. Last month, Suzano announced it was set to purchase a 15% stake in Lenzing a global producer of wood-based packaging materials Lenzing also develops fibre-based packaging materials that it describes as “naturally durable and biodegradable”. designed to reduce CO2 emissions by 224 tonnes when compared to standard corrugated multipacks and the curved corners aim to reduce the use of shrink film on the pallet. How are the top brands progressing on packaging sustainability? Sustainable Innovation Report 2024: Current trends and future priorities Reuse vs. single use – which is better for the environment? The ultimate guide to global plastic sustainability regulation Site powered by Webvision Cloud The dredging of the Imetame Logística Porto project in the city of Aracruz is heading towards reaching a depth of 17 meters the port has a depth of 15 meters in the dock area with 2.5 million m³ of dredged material removed so far which corresponds to 78% of the total progress the main equipment used in this activity is the “Backhoe” model dredger The partial operation phase of the dredging works is expected to be completed in the second half of this year Imetame began works on the R$1.7 billion project in July 2021 and the port will be fully operational by the end of 2025 Daily news and in-depth stories in your inbox Teenager was armed with a military semiautomatic pistol and his father’s revolver A former student armed with a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver who killed three people and wounded 13 in two schools in Brazil had a swastika pinned to his vest and had been planning the attacks for two years The shootings took place on Friday at a state school with primary and middle school students and a private school both on the same street in the small town of Aracruz in Espírito Santo state in eastern Brazil identified as a 16-year-old boy who used to study at the state school Authorities did not release the suspect’s name Authorities say the teenager used his family’s car to go from one school to the other and had the licence plate hidden by a cloth Security camera footage showed him wearing a bulletproof vest according to Espírito Santo’s public security secretary The shooter gained access to the teachers’ lounge in the state school after breaking a lock Casagrande said the semiautomatic weapon belonged to the military police while the revolver was a personal weapon registered in the name of the boy’s father The shooter is being held at a facility for underaged criminals but have happened more frequently in recent years Not far from where Friday’s attacks occurred a former student entered his school with homemade explosives and knives in August another teenager used his father’s gun to shoot and killed a student in a wheelchair Both attackers had met online at chat groups Police say investigations are still preliminary and they cannot jump to any conclusions about the motives for Friday’s shootings But they said the attacker was wearing military-style clothing and a swastika The family said he has received psychiatric treatment “This shows how the violence culture is a reality for some people This is a mental health issue which society has to deal with nowadays,” said Casagrande President Jair Bolsonaro has been a vocal supporter of gun rights Experts say that in the past four years more than 40 decrees were passed making it easier for Brazilians to buy and register weapons said in a report in September that Brazilians are buying more than a thousand weapons a day '#' : location.hash;window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery = location.search === '' && location.href.slice(0 location.href.length - window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash.length).indexOf('?') !== -1 '?' : location.search;if (window.history && window.history.replaceState) {var ogU = location.pathname + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUQuery + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash;history.replaceState(null ogU);}}document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(cpo);}()); Bahia – Brasil Em meados de abril,… the former Brazilian pulp and paper company He will long be remembered as a pioneer and visionary of the pulp and paper industry and holds a special place in the heart and history of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Recognized for his remarkable business and socio-environmental activity, Lorentzen was one of the pioneering members of the Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD, now WBCSD) in the early 1990s, and in 1997, founded BCSD Brazil (CEBDS Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável) with Eliezer Batista He was an early believer in developing business with social and environmental responsibility and in realizing the true value of our natural resources In 1992, Lorentzen penned the chapter on forestry and agriculture in the ground-breaking book, Changing Course: A Global Business Perspective on Development and the Environment, invited to do so by Stephan Schmidheiny as part of the BCSD taskforce The book marked the first time that global business formulated its views on sustainable development following the 1987 Brundtland report which had laid down the guiding principles for the practice Lorentzen had been inspired by the tenets of sustainable development some years earlier through his own efforts to create jobs and improve social conditions in Brazil in an environmentally sound way But not at this moment when all of us are the most excited and there is all this momentum a new organization with a commitment to making a difference was founded and in 1995 BSCD merged with the World Industry Council on the Environment (WICE) Lorentzen’s significant role in charting this course is irrefutable He continued to pioneer a path ahead of his time he was dedicated to planting more trees than were being cut down and harvested only planted (not old and ancient) trees This passion led him to found WBCSD’s first sectoral project for forestry company members – and an independent study into the issue of global forest The resulting report by the International Institute for Environment and Development, Towards a Sustainable Paper Cycle returned a series of recommendations and conclusions These supported Lorentzen’s thesis about the soundness of plantation strategy Aracruz had been following most of the report’s advice before it was published This, as Timberlake wrote, was the first time that an industry had taken the initiative to have an independent party produce standards and recommendations it could use to police itself around environmental concerns. The report also led to the creation of the Forest Solutions Group Lorentzen continued to remain active in the Brazilian forest sector long after the sale of Aracruz in 2009 and was still inspiring others well into his 90s sharing his ideas at BCSD Brazil’s conference will live on through the work he inspired throughout his life as a man able to envision the future and pave a path for change before many others Both WBCSD and BSCD Brazil continue to look to the future when confronting the challenges faced by business and society Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article Print BRASILIA — A 16-year-old former student who allegedly killed four people and wounded 12 at two schools in Brazil had a swastika pinned to his vest and had been planning the shooting rampage for two years The shootings took place Friday at a public school with elementary and middle school students and at a private school both on the same street in the small town of Aracruz in Espirito Santo state in southeastern Brazil Five of the wounded remained in the hospital identified as a youth who used to study at the public school Authorities did not release the teenager’s name but said he was armed with a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver Authorities say he used his family’s car to go from one school to the other and had the license plate hidden by a cloth Security camera video showed him wearing a bulletproof vest according to state Public Security Secretary Marcio Celante The shooter gained access to the teachers’ lounge in the public school after breaking a lock and the revolver was a personal weapon registered in the name of the former student’s father Mia Tretta was 15 years old when she was shot by a gunman at Saugus High in Santa Clarita she reflects on a never-ending stream of gun violence The youth is being held at a facility for underaged criminals School attacks are uncommon in Brazil, but have happened with somewhat greater frequency in recent years. In August, not far from where Friday’s attacks occurred, a former student entered his school in the city of Vitoria with homemade explosives and knives. No students or teachers were injured. A month later, in the northeastern state of Bahia, another teenager used his father’s gun to shoot and kill a student in a wheelchair. World & Nation police department during the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers has stepped down Both young attackers had met online in chat groups In 2019, two former students entered their school and killed eight people in the city of Suzano in Sao Paulo state. They later killed themselves. Friends told police they were both obsessed with the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado. Police say investigations are still preliminary and have not drawn any conclusions about the motives for Friday’s shootings. But they said the 16-year-old alleged attacker was wearing military-style clothing and a swastika. The family said he has received psychiatric treatment, which the school hadn’t been told about. “This shows how the violence culture is a reality for some people, especially young people. This is a mental health issue which society has to deal with nowadays,” said Casagrande. President Jair Bolsonaro has been a vocal supporter of gun rights. Experts say that, in the last four years, more than 40 presidential decrees made it easier for Brazilians to buy and register weapons. Sou da Paz Institute, a civil society organization, said in a report in September that Brazilians were buying more than 1,000 weapons per day nationwide. Subscribe for unlimited access Site Map we can't find the page that you are looking for Don't let that stop you from visiting some of our other great related content protected by reCAPTCHA.css-trhdh3::after{background-color:#fa9000;}EXPLORE MOREblinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 51 as Hamas rejects ‘conquest’ threatsUN and humanitarian aid groups say Israel proposed ‘dangerous’ ration ‘scheme’ after nine-week siege the California federal penitentiary has been shut for more than six decades Francis-era reforms that saw a diverse group of cardinals join the mix make his successor nearly impossible to call The attack comes as Moscow prepares to welcome foreign leaders from China and Brazil Remarks come as reports say Israel now eyeing occupation of Gaza control of aid and possible expulsion of Palestinians A study gives clues to cosmic origin of gold and heavy elements and they were created earlier than we thought Top UN court says it does not have authority to rule on case accusing UAE of arming Rapid Support Forces paramilitary ‘It’s a boy!’ Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza for a ‘gender reveal’ Israel has used human rights terminology to whitewash killing civilians Brazil’s Office of the Comptroller General (CGU) has launched an investigation into alleged irregularities practised by the Brazilian subsidiary of Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine that the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil had published a notice in the Official Gazette about the initiation of a preliminary administrative liability proceeding against the company’s subsidiary This has been launched to investigate alleged irregularities practised by EJA as the notice did not provide further information Sembcorp Marine was unable to assess the matter or impact the firm did confirm that EJA is cooperating fully with the authorities Sembcorp Marine underlined that it would continue to monitor developments in Brazil and make appropriate announcements in the event of “any material developments.” Regarding Sembcorp Marine’s recent activities in Brazil, it is worth noting that the firm’s Rigs & Floaters unit inked a deal with Petrobras for the construction of the P-82 FPSO in October 2022 for operations on the Búzios field in the Santos Basin pre-salt area offshore Brazil The Pioneers of Offshore Engineering GustoMSC part of NOV’s Marine and Construction business is recognized for providing advanced design & engineering consultancy for mobile offshore units and reliable equipment and technical knowledge into realistic & innovative ideas The performance of new and existing jack-ups Sembcorp Marine confirmed in a brief statement issued on March 24 in Singapore that its Brazilian subsidiary is under “investigation of alleged irregularities practices.” No further details were released on the scope of the investigation and if it is related to a nearly decade-old corruption and bribery case which involved the Brazilian oil and gas industry and many of the country’s shipbuilders Sembcorp Marine reports the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU) has published a notice in the official gazette informing of the ongoing investigation into the company’s subsidiary They report that the CGU has initiated a preliminary administrative liability proceeding against EJA “The notice does not provide further facts and the company is currently unable to assess the matter or impact EJA is cooperating fully with the authorities,” Sembcorp Marine writes Analysts in Asia however immediately warned that news of the investigation could weigh down Sembcorp Marine’s share price in the near term but the stock appeared unaffected in trading on Monday Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz is Sembcorp Marine’s wholly-owned shipyard subsidiary in Brazil The yard commenced operations in the second half of 2014 and is capable of undertaking construction including for drillships It can undertake both construction or repair assignments mostly working in the oil and gas sector. Sembcorp Marine announced in October 2022 that it had won a $3 billion contract for a new FPSO for Petrobras its largest single order from the Brazilian petroleum giant The winning bid more than doubled Sembmarine's orderbook by value it also won a contract from Brazil’s Ministry of Defense for a research support vessel The company has a long history of working with Brazil’s offshore industry Sembcorp Marine highlighted that it had delivered 13 floating production units for deployment in Brazil Sembcorp Marine and Keppel Offshore both reached agreements with Sete Brasil to settle disputes stemming from 2012 contracts for submersible rigs and drillships that were to be built in connection with their Brazilian yards Sembcorp Marine had filed an arbitration dispute in 2016 The contracts were also included in a far reached corruption scandal in Brazil Intermediary agents working for the shipbuilders were charged in a bribery and corruption scandal regarding the awarding of contracts from Petrobras It is unknown whether the newly announced investigation is related to this matter before the completion of the merger of the shipbuilding assets of Keppel with Sembcorp Marine and the Brazilian Attorney-General and Comptroller General reached an agreement for the resolution of the case dating back to 2016 and corrupt payments made by a former agent KOM in 2017 agreed to pay a combined total penalty of more than $422 million to resolve charges with authorities in the United States and in 2022 agreed to $65 million in fines with $53 million credited under the 2017 agreement 43,000+ global companies doing business in the region 102,000+ key contacts related to companies and projects news and interviews about your industry in English Indigenous people from Espírito Santo reached the Brazilian coastline 1,200 years ago and later met European colonizers during the Age of Discovery the capital of the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo the municipality of Aracruz is home to approximately 2,500 individuals who live on three indigenous territories that cover 18,000 hectares an area equivalent to just over a tenth of the city of São Paulo Most of them (about 95%) identify as members of the Tupiniquim ethnic group who met Portuguese explorers in 1500 and were later decimated to the point of disappearing from official historical and demographic records for almost a century A genetic analysis published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in January confirms past reports by the Tupiniquim themselves: they never went extinct although their declining population led them to miscegenate with European and African descendants Biological confirmation that these indigenous groups in Aracruz are Tupiniquim means that alongside the Tupinambá they are among the only living representatives of the Tupi peoples who inhabited the coast when Europeans landed on the beaches of what would later become Brazil Because this ethnic group from Espírito Santo originated in coastal areas scientists were able to use their DNA to reconstruct how the Tupi descendants of groups from southwestern Amazonia The conclusions presented by Brazilian researchers in the PNAS article were reached by comparing the genetic characteristics of the Tupiniquim from Aracruz with those from 14 other current and extinct indigenous peoples in the Americas (including the Guarani-Mbyá from the south of Brazil The genetic material from the Tupiniquim and Guarani-Mbyá was obtained by physicians Alexandre da Costa Pereira from the Heart Institute at the University of São Paulo (InCor-USP) from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) who have been monitoring the health of these two ethnic groups for almost 15 years Geneticist Francisco Salzano (1928–2018) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) collected blood samples from other groups in the Amazon—he also reviewed a preliminary version of the article before he died in 2018 Geneticist Tábita Hünemeier and her team at USP’s Biosciences Institute compared the genetic material from the indigenous people in Espírito Santo with that of other Brazilian ethnicities and found that on average 51% of the Tupiniquim DNA is of Native American origin (with 26% European and 23% African) who migrated from Rio Grande do Sul to Aracruz in the 1960s the proportion of indigenous genetic material is higher The other three ethnic groups studied (the Wajãpi and Gavião) show no signs of miscegenation with Europeans and Africans One explanation for the greater degree of mixing among the Tupiniquim is that they faced population collapse at the time When Pedro Álvares Cabral and his ships arrived in the region of Porto Seguro in the south of the current state of Bahia roughly 3 million indigenous people occupied what is now Brazilian territory according to estimates by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) similar to the population of Portugal at the time The Tupiniquim numbered approximately 90,000 individuals a number now confirmed by the genetic analysis and occupied a stretch of the coastline from southern Bahia to São Paulo the Tupiniquim population had fallen to about 3,000 and in 1876 it consisted of just 55 individuals They live in brick houses and speak only Portuguese was lost due to population reduction and miscegenation “The level of indigenous ancestry among the Tupiniquim is still very high although there are also individuals with a very diverse genetic makeup,” says geneticist Marcos Araújo Castro e Silva who is studying his PhD under the guidance of Hünemeier at USP and is the lead author of the article published in PNAS they managed to preserve much of their Native American ancestry,” adds the geneticist Native American ancestry among the general Brazilian population is 7% The Portuguese landing in Brazil for the first time as described by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 Drawing by Alfredo Roque Gameiro (1864–1935) Assessing how characteristic genetic variations occur over time Silva and Hünemeier identified three major periods of miscegenation in the Tupiniquim DNA occurred 11 generations ago (around 300 years ago) and coincided with the mining boom at the beginning of the eighteenth century when the number of European immigrants in Brazil exploded from 300,000 to 3 million people and members of indigenous groups were enslaved en masse The second happened almost a century later as the number of African slaves arriving grew sharply after the royal family moved to the country in 1808 stemming from mixing with both Europeans and Africans began five generations ago—when slavery was abolished at the end of the nineteenth century and new waves of European immigrants arrived to replace slave labor—and continues today The native American sections of the Tupiniquim DNA indicate that they never mixed with other living indigenous peoples “Their genetic profile is different to all of the other groups,” says Hünemeier this data confirms that the indigenous people who identify as Tupiniquim really do belong to that ethnic group “Showing that the Tupiniquim have a distinct genetic identity is important for them to identify themselves as a group,” says Mill but a sharp population decline led them to mix with descendants of Europeans and Africans Analysis of the genetic similarity between the Tupiniquim and other living indigenous peoples showed that they are genetically closer to the Urubu-Kaapor who both speak Tupi languages from northern Brazil even though the Tupiniquim and the Guarani-Mbyá share common ancestors who lived in the Amazon about 3,000 years ago This information allowed the researchers to recreate the routes taken by Tupi speakers when they started dispersing roughly 2,000 years ago in a process known as the Tupi expansion These ancestral populations travelled at least 4,000 kilometers and reached the coast by around the year 800 replacing its former residents—indigenous hunter-gatherers who buried their dead in middens (mounds of shells) and were probably part of several groups that speak Gê languages like the current Xavante people—and giving rise to peoples such as the Tupinambá and the Tupiniquim anthropologists and linguists have been debating the routes taken by Tupi-speaking peoples as they spread across the country presented in 1927 by Swiss-Argentine anthropologist Alfred Métraux (1903–1963) and later supported by other groups suggests ancestors of Tupi-speaking peoples migrated south from the Amazon and settled in what is now Paraguay and the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul by following the tributaries of the Paraná River such as married American couple Betty Meggers (1921–2012) and Clifford Evans (1920–1981) based the hypothesis on archaeological findings and environmental data from thousands of years ago There are signs that as the climate of the time caused the rainforest to shrink Map of possible Tupi expansion routes from Contributions to ethnographic and linguistic studies of America based on evidence that these groups were already making pottery and implementing an early form of agriculture By comparing this evidence with the pottery of current peoples Brochado proposed that the ancestral populations migrated northwest from a more central area of the Amazon reaching the present-day state of São Paulo Another wave then left central Amazonia and headed straight to the south the reason for the migration was not the climate but the continuously growing population and subsequent need for new land for food production The Guarani from southern Brazil then moved to the coast The PNAS study supports this second hypothesis The genetic data suggests there were two almost simultaneous waves of migration from the same region of the Amazon “The biological information corroborates Brochado’s hypothesis almost 50 years later,” says Eduardo Góes Neves an archaeologist from USP who has excavated in the Amazon in an effort to learn more about the Tupi expansion “Archaeological data we have obtained over the last 10 years indicate a combination of the two explanations: the dispersion began in the southwest of the Amazon but the separation of the Tupi ancestors from the coast and those from the south occurred in the Amazon a geneticist at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) who also studies the ancestry of Brazilians one of the study’s most important contributions is that it shows that the Tupi expansion was not just a cultural phenomenon in which peoples of different ancestries—speakers of Gê languages “Based on the data from this study,” says Tarazona “we can say that it was also a biological phenomenon probably caused by the increasing population.” Project The genomic diversity of Native Americans (nº 15/26875-9); Grant Mechanism Young Investigator Award; Supervisor Tábita Hünemeier (USP); Investment R$925,257.17 Scientific article SILVA, M. A. C. et al. Genomic insight into the origins and dispersal of the Brazilian coastal natives © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved SINGAPORE — Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary in Brazil, Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA), has completed work on the newbuild P-71 FPSO. The 316-m long, 54-m wide vessel has departed from EJA’s shipyard for the ultradeepwater Itapu Field in Brazil’s Santos Basin. In service, it will be capable of producing up to 150,000 bbl/d of oil, with storage capacity for 1.6 MMbbl and accommodation for 166 people. EJA’s work scope includes fabricating six modules, pipe racks and a flare as well as integrating these on the vessel with other modules and items supplied by the client. The shipyard also performed modifications to the topsides and hull to the field’s requirements. The 82.5ha EJA facility is in the Espirito Santo municipality of Aracruz. PeopleBrazil drops charges against Sembcorp Marine ex-employee and former consultantCorruption and money laundering charges stemmed from Operation Car Wash rig-building scandal The Brazilian Navy plans to commission the NApAnt Antarctic support ship in 2025 to replace the NApOc Ary Rongel boat (pictured here) The state-controlled Brazilian company Empresa Gerencial de Projetos Navais (EMGEPRON) signed a contract with Polar 1 Construção Naval worth USD150 million on 13 June for the Navio de Apoio Antártico (NApAnt) Antarctic support ship and related life-cycle support The contract marks a major milestone in its effort to acquire a new offshore support ship capable of operating in the Antarctic continent where the country has a permanent research station the Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station (EACF) The Brazilian Navy plans to commission the ship in late 2025 a special-purpose-entity formed by Brazil‘s Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA) and Sembcorp Marine of Singapore will build the NApAnt in Brazil at the shipbuilder Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz to replace the offshore support ship NApOc Ary Rongel (H44) in support of the Brazilian Antarctic Program (PROANTAR) Sembcorp Marine's wholly owned shipyard in Brazil The consortium of Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz and Sembcorp Marine was selected in October 2021 The ship was specifically acquired to lift equipment and personnel to the 4.500 m² EACF and to conduct research and survey work The ship will displace approximately 5,880 tonnes for a length of 93.9 m Gain unlimited access to Janes news and more.. Delivering trusted intelligence to warfighters to protect national interests Providing mission users with faster access to quality data to pre-empt threats and protect national security Assured interconnected OSINT to deliver informed Solutions Insights About Contact Request a demo Customer Login Store Receive the latest developments in defence and security as well as keep informed on Janes news and events Janes Intelligence SummaryA fortnightly update featuring the latest analysis SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)–Sembcorp Marine Ltd (S51.SG) Monday said it has secured a US$792.5 million drillship design and construction order a significant step in its ambitions to service Brazil’s burgeoning demand for deep water rigs The contract was awarded by Guarapari Drilling BV a subsidiary of Sete Brasil Participacoes SA an entity formed by seven Brazilian finance investors including banks Brazil’s four biggest pension funds and state-run energy giant Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR “This is a very significant milestone as this order not only represents the first drillship that our group is building for Brazil but it is also the first project secured by our new shipyard in Aracruz,” Wong Weng Sun president and chief executive of Sembcorp Marine said in a statement to the Singapore Exchange “We believe this order will be the first of many orders in Sete Brasil’s ambitious drillship expansion program,” he added Sete Brasil was formed to put financing in place for Petrobras’ massive rig building program Petrobras is seeking at least 21 new deepwater rigs such as semisubmersible rigs and drillships in order to develop the vast Brazilian pre-salt oil fields “A successful execution of the drillship contract could lead to more such contracts for Sembcorp Marine in the future offshore & marine analyst at DMG & Partners He added that the contract price was around 30% higher than drillship prices from shipyards in South Korea which “provides sufficient buffer to cater for the additional risk of building a drillship in Brazil.” (BN4.SG) secured a contract worth approximately US$809 million from a subsidiary of Sete Brasil for the design and construction of a semisubmersible drilling rig based on Sembcorp Marine’s proprietary Jurong Espadon drillship design will feature a 40-meter wide main deck and will be able to operate at 10,000-feet water depth The vessel is scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2015 Sembcorp Marine’s share price was up 3.1% at S$5.00 becoming one of the top performers on Singapore’s benchmark Straits Times Index In December 2011 Sembcorp Marine broke ground on its Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz ship yard The yard is scheduled for completion by end-2014 and gives Sembcorp Marine a production foothold in the country Petrobras requires that locally produced content feature in its massive rig expansion plan Dow Jones Newswires; Sam Holmes contributed to this article Sign up for gCaptain’s newsletter and never miss an update and updates delivered daily straight to your inbox May 2 (Reuters) – A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists for Gaza was bombed by drones in international waters off Malta early on Friday Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Iran on Wednesday that it will face consequences for supporting the Houthis even as the United States has relaunched talks with Iran over its nuclear program The US economy contracted at the start of the year for the first time since 2022 on a monumental pre-tariffs import surge and more moderate consumer spending a first snapshot of the ripple effects from President Donald Trump’s trade policy Subscribe to gCaptain Daily and stay informed with the latest global maritime and offshore news Stay informed with the latest maritime and offshore news For general inquiries and to contact us,please email: [email protected] To submit a story idea or contact our editors, please email: [email protected] For advertising opportunities contactEmail: [email protected]Phone: +1.805.704.2536 Essential news coupled with the finest maritime content sourced from across the globe We’re licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Copy URL Comments Sembcorp Marine announced that its subsidiary Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA) is under investigation for “alleged irregularities” Sembcorp Marine’s share price fell by 8.0% to close at S$0.104 on Friday 24th March. The share price decline came after the company announced that its subsidiary Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA) is under investigation for “alleged irregularities”. Let’s take a further look at what this could mean for the company and its share price. According to Sembcorp Marine the Office of the Comptroller General of Brazil (CGU) has initiated a preliminary administrative liability proceeding against its subsidiary Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz (EJA). The CGU is Brazil’s anti-corruption agency “responsible for defending public assets” and “acts to prevent, detect and punish cases of corruption” These relate to investigations of alleged irregularities practiced by EJA Sembcorp Marine’s shipyard in Brazil which started operations in 2014 there were no further details provided for now Sembcorp Marine is also unable to make an assessment on how this could potentially impact the company. Sembcorp Marine has faced several brushes with Brazilian authorities previously. Here’s a quick recap of what happened in the past 2012: Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiaries secured a number of rig construction contracts with the subsidiaries of Sete Brasil Feb 2015: Various media reports that Petrobras’ former engineering manager had made statements that illegal payments had been made in connection with contracts into by Petrobras and/or Sete Brasil July 2019: Brazilian authorities executed a search warrant on EJA in connection with the ongoing investigations Feb 2020: Martin Cheah, former president of EJA, charged in Brazil with money laundering and corruption. The charges are in his personal capacity and not against EJA Martin Cheah’s employment with Sembcorp Marine had been terminated in 2015 Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) was previously investigated over bribes for contracts in Brazil. In December 2017, Keppel O&M announced a fine amounting to US$422 million as part of a global resolution with authorities in the United States, Brazil and Singapore. The resolution relates to US$55 million in corrupt payments made by a former Keppel agent Mr Zwi Skornicki made “improper payments” to Brazilian government officials with regard to Keppel O&M projects with Petrobras and Sete Brasil. These payments were made with the knowledge or approval of former Keppel O&M executives. In January 2023, the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) issued stern warnings to six former senior management of Keppel Offshore & Marine (KOM) relating to the bribery payments. As recent as in October 2022, Sembcorp Marine won an order worth US$3.05 billion from Petrobras for the construction of an oil production unit. This was seen as a sign by some investors that Sembcorp Marine was still able to secure new work in Brazil. However, this relief proved to be short-lived. Sembcorp Marine’s share price fell sharply following the completion of the merger with Keppel Offshore & Marine, with a selldown in the large number of shares issued to Keppel’s shareholders. Since its peak of S$0.152 in early December 2022, the share price of Sembcorp Marine has fallen by more than 30%. The latest negative news flow appears to have led to renewed investor concerns about Sembcorp Marine’s operations in Brazil. The uncertainty could continue to drive weaker sentiment towards Sembcorp Marine until there is greater clarity on the investigations. Copy URL Read also Most Popular Gain financial insights in minutes Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter for more insights to grow your wealth The newsletter that keeps you up-to-date on the financial markets. It’s fun, informative, and free! has completed the construction works on its first floating production a consortium comprising Petrobras Netherlands B.V. Petrobras P-68 FPSO left the shipyard on September 16 and will be deployed to the ultra-deepwater Berbigão and Sururu fields in Brazil’s Santos Basin With a length of 316 meters and a width of 54 meters the P-68 will produce up to 150,000 barrels of oil per day (BOPD) It has a 1.6-million-barrel storage capacity and can accommodate 154 persons EJA’s P-68 work scope includes fabricating six modules and integrating them on the vessel along with other free issue items It also executed carry-over works on the FPSO’s hull EJA will complete the P-71 FPSO modules fabrication and integration project for Tupi B.V the Damen Shipyards Group has served the maritime industry with shipbuilding and repair services Damen operates 35 shipyards and 20 other companies in 20 countries and employs over 11,000 people In its work with offshore energy operators all around the world Damen is led by one thing: the ambitions of […]