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Transportation in Brazil

  • Brazil’s Azul invests in TAP – Air Portugal

    BRAZIL, 2016/03/26 Brazilian airline Azul made an investment of about US$100 million (90 million euros) in Portuguese airline TAP – Portugal, according to a statement posted on its website. “The investment will give Azul the right to hold approximately 40 % of the economic price of the Portuguese airline at the time of conversion of the security and next approval by the Civil Aviation Authority of Portugal,” the statement said. The issue of bonds convertible into shares, is occurring under the TAP recapitalisation plan agreed in June 2015 during the privatisation process of the Portuguese airline.
  • China’s Tianjin Airlines buys 22 aircraft from Brazil’s Embraer

    CHINA, 2015/05/21 Brazilian aeronautical company Embraer will supply 22 jet aircraft to Tianjin Airlines, of China, a subsidiary of the HNA Group, under a final arrangement signed Tuesday, the company said in a statement. This arrangement, worth US$1.1 billion, includes 20 E195 aircraft and two E190-E2, which makes the HNA Tianjin Airlines group the initial Chinese airline to purchase E2 E-Jets aircraft.
  • Peru, Brazil and China are moving forward on a transcontinental railway

    CHINA, 2015/05/16 The 10bn dollar mega project is expected to be formalized during a four-country Latin American tour by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang The 10bn dollar mega project is expected to be formalized during a four-country Latin American tour by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The railway is expected to slash the cost of exporting commodities from Brazil to China. Brazilian grains and oilseeds are a top item on China’s wish inventory, as are iron and other raw minerals. Agricultural goods like corn and soy currently leave Brazil by sea and have to overcome the South American 'barrier' in their trip to the Pacific and Chinese ports. An overland route would shave off a few days from the trip, and lower transport costs.
  • IDB loan for Sao Paulo State

    BRAZIL, 2013/12/26 With its 41 million people and a third of the country’s gross domestic product, the national of São Paulo due administers a road network marked by intensive use. Two thousand vehicles operate daily on 75% of the network while additional than four thousand vehicles operate on 30% of the roadways. The Brazilian national of Sao Paulo will receive a loan for 480 million dollars from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to improve freight and passenger transport in the national highway system in order to enhance competitiveness and regional and international integration by reducing transport costs and travel time.
  • Brazilian airline pilots and flight attendants cancel strike

    BRAZIL, 2013/12/20 Brazil's airline pilots, copilots and flight attendants called off a strike planned for Friday next reaching a transaction with employers over wages and working conditions, the union representing plane crews said on Thursday. The workers agreed to a wage hike of 5.6 % and several other benefits like a fee floor for copilots and better layover conditions for crew members returning from maternity leave, the union said in a statement.
  • Regular shipping line between Brazil and Cabo Verde

    BRAZIL, 2013/12/01 A regular shipping line between Brazil and Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) is due to be launched in the initial two weeks of December using the Agena ship owned by a Danish shipping company, Brazilian newspaper O Povo, from the national of Ceará, reported Tuesday. The route will be operated by Companhia Docas do Ceará (CDC) and Ceará Trade Brasil, and will link the port of Mucuripe, in Fortaleza, the capital of Ceará national, to the Cape Verdean ports of Praia and Mindelo. The current shipping route between Ceará and Cabo Verde links Fortaleza to the archipelago via the Brazilian port of Santos and the port of Lisbon in Portugal and takes 35 to 40 days to reach Cabo Verde.
  • Africa World Airline (AWA) has revealed it will begin flying to Brazil next year.

    BRAZIL, 2013/10/24 Africa World Airline (AWA) has revealed it will begin flying to Brazil next year. The airline which plans to plying that route by end of the initial quarter of 2014 year said the move is part of its plans to cash in on the FIFA World Cup which take off in June next year in Brazil. The move is as well part of the local airline’s ambitious restructuring plan. If this ambitious plan comes to being, the local airline will be the initial to ply that route from Ghana. Africa World Airline is the second airline to have gotten the nod to ply the Accra – Lagos route. Its Chief Operations Officer, Appigy Afenu told Citi Business News, “because of our world ambitions, that is why we have to continue flying domestic…so by the end of the initial quarter, we should be there [Brazil].” There have been calls for local airline to move beyond plying the sub-Saharan route.
  • Delta Air Lines and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes

    BRAZIL, 2013/08/24 Twenty months next Delta Air Lines and GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes announced their enhanced, long-term, exclusive alliance, the companies highlight the milestones completed. Delta and GOL leveraged the strengths of both carriers to create additional price by establishing a seamless customer experience. The Delta and GOL commercial team finished its immediate objectives: (1) expand the codeshare agreement; (2) provide additional benefits to the airlines' loyal customers; and (3) offer a consistent experience at airports.
  • Brazil and Israeli companies join to develop unmanned aircraft for border control

    ISRAEL, 2013/02/08 Brazil will be hosting next year the World Cup and in 2016 the Olympic Games and needs to keep tight control of its 16.000 kilometres of frontiers with ten Latinamerican nations. This is particularly critical in the central south, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia, where smuggling is an everyday business from colonial times but presently includes deadly arms for criminal activities and drugs.
  • Brazil Shipping Analysis Q1 2011

    BRAZIL, 2011/01/23