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The slumping economy led to a 4.5% decline in oil products consumption last year in the country. In 2015 from 2014, consumption had also gone down, but not at as sharp a rate.

Cargo volume handled in Brazil in 2016 was slightly down from the year before as a result of the maize crop failure, according to data from the National Agency for Waterway Transportation (Antaq).