About us

A Venezuelan company that began operations in 1994. Its expertise is based on a training program developed in 1991 by COOPER / T. SMITH Stevedoring in Darrow, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, which included river navigation operations, hands-on maneuvers on the Mississippi River, and bulk, semi-bulk and general (“dry”) cargo loading and unloading of ships using “barge cranes” (“Duty Cycle Gantry Floating Crane”). It also draws on engineering know-how transferred by River Consulting Engineers Inc. of New Orleans. The most significant experience listed below is also based on a later on-site training program developed with ORINOCO BULK HANDLING (a subsidiary of COOPER/T. SMITH) on the Orinoco River.

• Design, construction and commissioning of a temporary dock for unloading bulk bauxite ore from barges: SIPRODEB, with a capacity of 1.2 million MT per year, built between Dec 1989 and April 1990 with an investment of US$ 2.0 MM.
• Design and commissioning of the CURIAPO 69 Transfer Station, with support from COOPER/T. SMITH Stevedoring. Eleven (11) “top-off” lightering operations were carried out on overloaded bauxite ships anchored in the river, unloading cargo onto barges to reduce their draft so they could continue through the Orinoco River navigation channel.
• Several unloading operations of “black bulk products” (coke, anthracite) using “floating cranes” at the ALCASA Aluminum floating dock, mile 193, Orinoco River.
• Salvage and refloating of the M/V RESTACK, grounded at mile 189 and blocking the Orinoco River navigation channel (January 1990), and recovery of three (3) sunken barges carrying 1,500 MT of bauxite at mile 220, Moitaco, Bolívar State.
• In the dry season, limited dredging of the Orinoco River caused draft restrictions on its navigation channel in 1992–1994. At the request of the shipping agency LLOYD SUDAMERICANA, nine (9) “top-on” operations completing ships' export cargo were carried out at the CURIAPO 69 Transfer Station, using barges, a pushboat and “floating cranes”.

PORT STEVEDORING OPERATIONS: LOADING & UNLOADING (General, Bulk & Semi-Bulk)

Among the main stevedoring operations carried out in VENEZUELA with the professional services of ZARAV MARINE Venezuela, we have served a portfolio of clients at lake terminals: Maracaibo and La Ceiba; sea terminals: Puerto Cabello, Guanta, Pamatacualito (BAROID) and Güiria; and river terminals: San Félix, Palúa, ALCASA and SIDOR.

• VENCEMOS MARA Semi-bulk loading (BB). Barge cranes at San Francisco anchorage, Lake Maracaibo
• VENCEMOS MARA Bulk loading (BB). Barge cranes at San Francisco anchorage, Lake Maracaibo
• LLOYD SURAMERICANO 14 lightering operations, Curiapo mile 69, Orinoco River, Venezuela
• SPIVEY MARINE & HARBOR Loading/unloading of 2 pushboats, 750 HP – Illinois USA – Matanzas, Venezuela
• VENCEMOS PERTIGALETE Ship chartering and general unloading, sling cargo, Güiria, Venezuela
• JAMAICA GYPSUM QUARRIES Ltd. Bulk gypsum unloading in Maracaibo, Venezuela
• CEMENTOS CATATUMBO Chartering, bulk loading and unloading of iron ore: Maracaibo, Venezuela
• DIPROINDUCA, Montreal, Canada Bulk loading of iron briquettes, SIDOR, Matanzas, Venezuela
• TRADE FERRO METAL Pittsburgh, USA Bulk loading of iron briquettes, SIDOR, Matanzas, Venezuela
• NEWCO AG. Zurich, Switzerland Bulk loading of C.B.I. iron briquettes, SIDOR, Matanzas, Venezuela
• CEMENTOS ANDINO Chartering, bulk loading and unloading of iron ore: Puerto La Ceiba, Venezuela
• TRANSOCEAN SHIPPING Ltd. Jamaica. Chartering and bulk gypsum unloading, Maracaibo, Venezuela
• POLYBARQ Polyurethane (rolls in containers), Trinidad – PONSA Manufacturing, Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
• PETROQUIMICA PEQUIVEN Navigation channel study, Caparo & Apure rivers, phosphate rock transport
• PERENCO PETROLEUM (oil operator in Venezuela) Maritime transport of equipment & spare parts
• SCHLUMBERGER Ship chartering and semi-bulk unloading of oil-well cement, Trinidad – Venezuela
• HALLIBURTON Ship chartering and semi-bulk unloading of oil-well cement, Trinidad – Venezuela
• AMERICAN COMMERCIAL BARGE LINE – ACBL Transport contracting, Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA
• RIVER CONSULTING – Materials handling engineering, Metairie, Louisiana, USA
• COOPER/T. SMITH Stevedoring – Alabama, USA. Training in bulk and semi-bulk unloading systems
• TECNOCONSULT – River transport studies for bulk cargo: phosphate rock – Engineering, Venezuela
• NAVIERA ISACA C.A. – International chartering, semi-bulk and “dry” cargo loading and unloading, Caribbean
• POSTENSADO VN INDUSTRIAL de VENEZUELA – Field engineering consulting
• AUTANA C.A. Servicios Industriales – Land transport and port storage, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
• MUN-CHIN ENTERPRISES Ltd. – Wood Sawing Ind. – General cargo unloading (timber), San Fernando, Trinidad
• TERMINAL PORTUARIO PALUA C.A. – Semi-bulk unloading, mile 182, Orinoco River navigation channel
• TERMINAL PORTUARIO SAN FELIX – General cargo, mile 180, Orinoco River navigation channel
• TERMINAL PORTUARIO CLAXTON BAY – General cargo, palletized bagged cement, Couva, Trinidad W.I.
• TOCOMA Consortium IMPREGILO–ODEBRECHT–VINCLER – Chartering/unloading of cement, San Félix, Venezuela