Brazilian iron ore exports to China in 2022 amounted to around 240 (more precisely 237.9) million tonnes, for a total of almost 20 (more precisely 18.2) billion USD

The backlands will become the sea and the sea will become the backlands. In Brazil, in the Northeast, which is where it all began, this was a famous motto from the no less famous cordel literature, as it was then called, and which is still valid today _ or even more valid than then.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon on the twenty-eighth of August, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, the Uruguay Star liner, of the English company Blue Star, left the Port of Santos, shortly after having embarked a last passenger, who was left on the ship by a speedboat...

Even without a sea, every March 23rd, Bolivia celebrates its Sea Day.

Beira mar is the title of the fourth book of the monumental memorial work by Pedro Nava, a notable writer from Minas Gerais, published in 1978, and the fourth in a series of six volumes, to which a seventh volume must be added, left unfinished.

The importance of the navigability of South American rivers in the founding of Brazil as routes of inland penetration and the possibility of them constituting, in the present and future, a factor of cultural, political and economic unity in the southern part of the continent, materialized in MERCOSUR.

Pancetti, Giuseppe Gianinni Pancetti, or simply José Pancetti, sailor and one of the most important painters of Brazilian art of the twentieth century, especially in the transition from the first to the second half, associated with one of the nuances of modernism, the one that has roots in impressionism, but a more comprehensive painter and known above all for his seascapes, which are today represented in the most sophisticated museums and art galleries in the world.

The younger generations may not remember what was also known as the “Palmeta War” and led a future Admiral of the Brazilian Navy to utter the famous phrase “if the palmeta is a fish because it moves by jumping, then the kangaroo is a bird”, but it is important that they do not forget because it is also an excellent example of how the apparently most linear and obvious issues can easily be transformed, even from a legal point of view, or perhaps even from a legal point of view, into a major international imbroglio.

Letícia Carvalho, Brazilian, was very recently elected Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the International Seabed Authority, in Letícia's language, and ours.