{"id":3740,"date":"2023-09-28T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2023\/09\/28\/svitzer-expands-green-tug-offering-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:06:57","slug":"svitzer-expands-green-tug-offering-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/americas-greenport\/svitzer-expands-green-tug-offering-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Svitzer expands green tug offering in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Svitzer <em>Monte KT<\/em> is sister to three tugs already delivered to Svitzer in 2023, which have been deployed across the ports of P\u00e9cem, Paranagua and Santos on Brazil\u2019s coast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe delivery of the Svitzer <em>Monte KT<\/em> at Santos shows Svitzer\u2019s commitment to continued growth in Brazil,\u201d said Arjen Van Dijk, managing director Americas, Svitzer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrazil continues to be one of Svitzer\u2019s main growth markets in the Americas region with two further vessels, equipped with FiFi 1 firefighting capabilities to be delivered to Svitzer in Brazil by the second quarter of 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green fleet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tug is one of six new azimuth stern drive tugs that will be put into operation in Brazil before the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by Robert Allen and built at the Brazilian shipyard, Rio Maguari, the Ramparts 2300 series tug has a top speed of 13 knots and a bollard pull of 70 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of 2023, Svitzer will be operating 20 tugs, including the four vessels added to the fleet in 2023, from eight ports across Brazil \u2013 Salvador, Suape, Pecem, Santos, Vitoria, Rio Grande, Sao Francisco do Sul, and Paranagua.<\/p>\n<p>It will join sister tug Svitzer&nbsp;<em>Atan\u00e1sio<\/em>&nbsp;in Santos, Brazil\u2019s largest port and Latin America\u2019s busiest container hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svitzer has added a fourth sustainable tug to its Brazilian fleet as it seeks to strengthen its presence in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3742,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/3742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}