Albras Alumínio Brasileiro S.A. is the second-largest aluminium producer in Brazil having a total annual production of around 460,000 tonnes. It is a joint venture between Norsk Hydro (51%) and Nippon Amazon Aluminium Co. Ltd. (NAAC) (49%). The company is supplied with the electric energy it needs (700 MW ) from the Tucurui Hydroelectric Plant (4000 MW).
4-549: It is located in the city of Barcarena in Pará . Established on September 1, 1978, Albras was constituted as a joint venture between Brazilian and Japanese capitals. On July 6, 1985, the Albras plant was started for the first time and it was officially inaugurated on October 24 the same year. This Brazilian corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Barcarena, Brazil Barcarena
8-651: Is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pará adjacent the Tocantins River . It has a population of 127,027 and is part of the Belém metropolitan area. The city's economy relies largely on agriculture and bauxite . There are also facilities for pig iron nearby. They city and port is developing as a major transshipping port that takes goods for international export linked by rail from nearby inland ports , from all over Brazil, speeding up shipment and reducing time and costs as opposed to traditional megaports in
12-597: The Southeast. The town was originally inhabited by the Aruá Indians . In 1709 Jesuits came. On October 6, 2015, the livestock vessel "MV Haidar" capsized in the Vila do Conde port due to an unsuccessful turning maneuver. It had 4,900 live cattle and almost 700 metric tonnes of oil on board. 4,400 cattle drowned while locked in the ship's cargo area. About 500 animals could free themselves, but only about 100 survived
16-463: The accident. Fuel and oil seeped from the wreck into the water and contaminated the Pará river and surrounding beaches, which deprived many local fisher families of their livelihood. Since the removal of the oil slick proved to be complicated, and no consensus regarding responsibility and suitable cleanup efforts could be reached, hundreds of carcasses rotted at the beach and inside the shipwreck for months –
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