Agência Brasil*
Rio de Janeiro – The president of Petrobras Distribuidora (BR), Graça Foster, and the logistics executive director at mining company Vale do Rio Doce, Eduardo Bartolomeu, signed today (17) a contract for the supply of B20, a mixture of 20% biodiesel and 80% common diesel to the mining company. The fuel will be used in the locomotives that operate on the Carajás Railway and on the Railway connecting Vitória (in Espírito Santo) to Minas Gerais, both in southeastern Brazil.
The contact will be signed today at 02:30, at the Vale do Rio Doce offices. The document will make Vale one of the main consumers of biodiesel in the world. Vale is the largest logistics service provider in Brazil and the largest producer and exporter of iron ore in the world.
Currently, Vale is present in 13 Brazilian states, has business in countries on four continents and offices in New York, Brussels, Johannesburg, Tokyo and Shanghai. The company is the largest private company in Latin America. Brazil is working to provide incentives to the use of cleaner fuels, like biodiesel.
*Translated by Mark Ament
