{"id":41715,"date":"2024-04-11T00:56:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/paranagua-port-conveyor-belt-idle-amid-explosion-risk\/41715\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T00:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:56:15","slug":"paranagua-port-conveyor-belt-idle-amid-explosion-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/paranagua-port-conveyor-belt-idle-amid-explosion-risk\/41715\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranagua Port Conveyor Belt Idle Amid Explosion Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">\n<span class=\"\" itemprop=\"author\">By Ana Mano<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-04-10T16:53:17.0000000\"\/><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">April 10, 2024<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2024-04-10T16:53:17.0000000\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a9 Lucia \/ Adobe Stock\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The Port of Paranagua, one of Brazil&#8217;s busiest for sugar and grain exports, said on Wednesday one conveyor belt at its so-called export corridor remains inoperative after labor authorities idled it over a &#8220;risk of explosion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Paranagua Export Corridor Terminals Association (Atexp), comprising a group of 10 companies that operate in the facility, ships approximately 20 million tons of grains per year using that structure, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the port told Reuters the inoperative conveyor belt has not disrupted grain exports via the corridor, adding that five out of a total of six belts remain operational.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Auditors from the ministry of labor found serious maintenance issues and excessive dust accumulation, which could lead to an explosion,&#8221; shipping agent Williams said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams added that the order to stop the conveyor belt may delay ship loading.<\/p>\n<p>Atexp, whose exporters include Cargill and Louis Dreyfus Company, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The labor ministry could not be reached for comment. The order to idle the belt took effect on April 1, the port&#8217;s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Reporting by Ana Mano Editing by Sandra Maler)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ana Mano April 10, 2024 \u00a9 Lucia \/ Adobe Stock The Port of Paranagua, one of Brazil&#8217;s busiest for sugar and grain exports, said on Wednesday one conveyor belt at its so-called export corridor remains inoperative after labor authorities idled it over a &#8220;risk of explosion.&#8221; The Paranagua Export Corridor Terminals Association (Atexp), comprising &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/41716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}