2-3-21 5,400 liters of Sinovac vaccine arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
COVID19 vaccines arrived in Brazil
Brazil to acquire 100 mln Sinovac’s vaccine
1-8-20 China-developed Sinovac’s vaccine reported 78% efficacy rate in Brazil’s trials. It is stepping closer to official approval in China and experts said it is a “good vaccine” in results, but further data needed.
Sinovac’s Covid19 vaccine arrived in Brazil
12-4-20 600 liters (1 mln doses) of Chinese producer Sinovac’s Covid19 vaccine has arrived in Brazil. It is the second batch of the Chinese vaccine after 120,000 doses arrived in November.
Chinese firms to build largest cross-sea cable-stayed bridge in Latin America
A joint venture of China Railway 20th Bureau Group Co and China Communications Construction Co signed a contract to build a cross-sea cable-stayed bridge in Salvador with the Brazilian state of Bahia on Thursday, meaning the construction of the largest such bridge in Latin America will kick off.
Located in Salvador, the capital of Bahia state in Brazil, the Salvador Bridge is designed to be 46.8 kilometers long.
One of the highlights of the bridge will be the 12.4-kilometer cross-sea section, with the main tower topping up at 205 meters and a maximum span of 450 meters.
The depth of water in the area reaches 60 meters.
Huawei, Oi to deploy 8,000km of fiber backbone in Brazil’s Amazon
The company announced that, since July, it has been supporting a project by Brazilian Oi to activate an additional 8,000km of fiber backbone crossing eight states in Brazil’s Amazon region. Oi’s national backbone already spans over 388,000km.
The announcement of the Amazon project was made by the president of Huawei in Brazil, Sun Baocheng, at the online event “Amazonia Conectada” (Amazon connected), promoted by the municipal institute of innovation (IMI), a Brazilian think-thank that supports municipalities in PPP projects.
Brazil builds industrial port to boost trade with Asia
Brazil is building a large, modern port complex to facilitate trade with Asia, its main market, and benefit a range of productive sectors.
The 1,800-hectare facility, called Porto Central, is located in the coastal town of Presidente Kennedy, in southeast Espirito Santo state, on the border with neighboring Rio de Janeiro state.
At a seminar organized Tuesday by China’s Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro, the general director of Porto Central, Jose Maria Novaes, invited Chinese companies to join the project and make use of the port, designed to be South America’s most modern, when it opens in late 2023.
“Asia, particularly China, is Brazil’s largest trading partner, and this international trade flow, mainly of commodities from Brazil to Asia and industrialized products from Asia to Brazil, requires large ships” that few Brazilian ports can now accommodate, noted Novaes.
“There are few ports in Brazil capable of loading and unloading the world’s great ships. That is the differential of the Porto Central project: being able to receive the world’s largest ships, in each class, at each port terminal,” he said.
The port will feature a series of terminals, an internal channel with gradually decreasing water depth for ships sailing in, and 13 docks for ships carrying liquids, said Novaes.
“It is an industrial port enabling water, energy and gas at competitive prices, with terminals for the export of raw materials and semi-finished products, and with the flexibility to accommodate the interests of project developers,” he added.
Brazil May Face ‘Consequences’ if It Gives Huawei 5G Access, Says U.S. Ambassador
The U.S. government has stepped up efforts to limit Huawei’s role in rolling out high-speed, fifth-generation technology in Latin America’s largest economy. It believes Huawei would hand over data to the Chinese government for spying. Huawei denies it spies for China.
U.S. Ambassador Todd Chapman said that Brazil would not face reprisals for picking Huawei, but could face consequences.
Brazil inaugurates state-of-the-art Chinese built Antarctic base
Brazil inaugurated a brand new state-of-the-art research station in Antarctica this week.
It took eight years and an investment of almost 100 million dollars to build Brazil’s new research station, after the old one was destroyed in a fire in 2012.
This Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is entirely new and built by the Chinese company CEIEC, chosen through an international bidding process.