# Market Talks: Vessel Shortage in the Pre‑Salt Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/argus-media-792465/market-talks-vessel-shortage-in-the-pre-salt Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/argus-media-792465/market-talks-vessel-shortage-in-the-pre-salt.md Podcast: [Argus Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/argus-media-792465) Published: 2026-05-06T08:46:56+00:00 Episode link: https://argusmedia.podbean.com/e/market-talks-vessel-shortage-in-the-pre%e2%80%91salt/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/vmpddud96subftw6/Falando_de_Mercado_-_EP_266_ENG92zh2.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/argus-media-792465/episodes/market-talks-vessel-shortage-in-the-pre-salt Duration seconds: 589 ## Resource The availability of vessels for offshore oil transportation is a bottleneck for the expansion of crude production in Brazil. Market participants fear that the fleet of Dynamic Positioning ships will be insufficient to meet output growth in the coming years. Listen to this conversation between Conrado Mazzoni, business development manager based in Sao Paulo, and João Scheller, who handles crude oil pricing in Latin America. Some of the topics discussed in this episode: DP ship fleet in Brazil and worldwide Expansion of logistics and port infrastructure Increase in oil production and exports ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/argus-media-792465/episodes/market-talks-vessel-shortage-in-the-pre-salt/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/argus-media-792465/market-talks-vessel-shortage-in-the-pre-salt.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.