Brazil area report
The Brazilian offshore market is attracting new players from the ports sector
Port companies plan offshore expansion W
agner Biasoli, president of Grupo Libra, which already has container terminal operations in Santos and
Rio de Janeiro, revealed to OSJ that the rapidly expanding, privately-owned Brazilian company is “very keen” to enter the offshore sector. “Brazil is doing very well in the offshore oil business but we are heading for some very serious problems in the near future,” he asserted. “The main problem is the support for the oil platforms. To be more precise, the problem here is the lack of support for the offshore industry in general. “Here in Brazil we just do not have enough infrastructure for the number of offshore support vessels that are coming to do business here. Grupo Libra wants to be part of the solution for this growing problem.” And a growing problem it most certainly is, with dozens of OSVs dotted around Guanabara Bay (particularly to the north side of the Niteroi bridge), anchored for days and, sometimes, weeks, awaiting one of the few berthing spaces available in Niteroi or Rio de Janeiro. Mr Biasoli told OSJ that Grupo Libra and its
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Brazilian port terminal and logistics company Grupo Libra has decided to join dozens of other companies – both international and Brazilian owned – and enter the offshore sector
by Rob Ward
subsidiaries Libra Terminais (specialising in port terminals) and Libra Aeroportos (specialising in the airports of Cabo Frio and Angra Dos Reis) were looking at ways to plug some of the gaps in land-based services currently being offered to offshore operators in Brazil. “We have just won the concession to operate out of the airport of Cabo Frio,” he explained, “and this is strategically well-placed to serve the oilfields of both the Campos and the Santos Basins. “The idea would be to also develop some
maritime services at the small port of Arraial do Cabo, just to the south of Cabo Frio. We also want
to develop offshore support services out of our Libra Rio terminal near downtown Rio de Janeiro.” The two container terminals (one operated by Grupo Libra and one operated by Multiterminais) are both currently undergoing a US$572 million upgrade which will double capacity and allow both operators to diversify into offshore support activities. Pedro Orsini, the general director for Libra
Aeroportos, said that the amount of cargo handled by Cabo Frio airport had doubled during 2011 (up to 20,985 tonnes) and much of that increase had come from offshore activity This year, around US$13-20 million will
be spent on the airport and that will include increasing the number of helicopter pads from 15 to 30, mostly to service the Campos and Santos Basins. Libra will also build two new warehouses (to add to the four existing ones) in Cabo Frio, to provide further back-up for offshore support services, which again could be used to back up any port facility to be built at Arraial do Cabo. Mr Orsini added: “Our warehousing in Cabo Frio can serve the offshore industry both via
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