{"id":7673,"date":"2008-12-11T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2008\/12\/11\/brazil-investment-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T12:24:00","slug":"brazil-investment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/north-america\/brazil-investment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil investment 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And if MSC gets its way container throughput will mushroom at Pecem from today&#8217;s 150,000 teu per annum, up to more than 1m teu within the next two to three years.<\/p>\n<p>And Erasmo Pitombeira, the president of Cearaportos, said that the port authority plans to expand and improve the port of Pecem &#8211; including new piers with a depth alongside of more than 16 metres &#8211; has attracted interest from a number of major carriers, including MSC and Maersk Line, which already operates the CTO box terminal at the port.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Pitombeira added: &#8220;The idea is that Pecem will soon handle post panamax vessels. We have had a number of inquries from interested parties including MSC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For carriers, one of the advantages of Pecem is it is the closest Brazilian port to the US (just six days sailing) and to Europe (just seven days).<\/p>\n<p>MSC recently switched several of its key ECSA services to Portonave (in which it is understood to have a financial interest), and is now seeking to expand its Brazilian interestes in other strategic areas of the South American country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having cemented its presence at the southeast Brazilian port complex of Itajai &#8211; via the Portonave box facility &#8211; Mediterrenean Shipping Company (MSC) is now ready to build a base at Pecem, in the northeast of the country, according to the Pecem port authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673","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=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}