AAL Hamburg loads barges in Pará Operation

A private-use terminal in Pará loaded 16 barges stacked sideways on the heavy-lift vessel AAL Hamburg, marking the first operation of this kind in South America. The terminal normally handles around 74 million liters of clean products, recently expanded for biofuels, and the barges — each weighing approximately 380 tons — will support LHG Mining’s dry-bulk export operations via the Paraguay-Paraná waterway. The initiative is financed by the Merchant Marine Fund and BNDES.