The Spanish group Acciona has been selected by the companies and OSX LLX Brazilian EBX Group to , in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, which will have a total length of over three , 8 km, of which 2.8 miles of artificial dams made of concrete blocks. The contract will be worth over 400 million.
For dams Acciona realize large blocks concrete, size of 66 x 24 x 21 meters technique group iberico has already used repeatedly for building works Spanish ports Algeciras, Tarragona Escombreras and El Ferrol and Kugira use the floating dock that will be transferred from Spain to Brazil.
The new shipyard will be part of the new ACU superporto, a private port complex under construction by LLX group of companies over an area of 7,800 hectares EBX in São João da Barra, a town that is close to the main production area oil and gas in Brazil. The project, which was launched in October 2007, involves a total investment of 1.6 billion dollars to make the biggest industrial port in Latin America consists of two terminals, for a total quay line and 17 km of well with drafts up to -18 meters, which will be capable of handling at least 350 million tons annually of solid and liquid bulk and other cargoes.
Always in the State of Rio de Janeiro LLX is building another port project "Superporto Sudeste" dedicated to the handling of iron ore, which has a capacity of 50 million tonnes per annum ( of 14 April 2009).
Meanwhile MMX Mineração and Metálicos, another group company EBX, and its subsidiary PortX Operações Portuárias signed a preliminary agreement with the mining industry Minerinvest Mineração Ltda for the supply of port services and activities in Southeast superporto and for the provision of iron ore.
Orient Overseas (International) Limited (OOIL), the subsidiary of the Chinese shipping group COSCO Shipping Holdings that operates containerized maritime transport services with ...
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