Brazil: Public Prosecutor's Office demands that the government and companies that owned cattle ship that sank 10 years ago eliminate environmental risk caused by its wreckage
"Brazil prosecutors sue agencies over Haidar shipwreck, environmental risk", 26 November 2025
...Brazilian federal prosecutors in Para state have filed a lawsuit to demand the removal of the hull and oily residues from the Haidar ship, which sank 10 years ago near Vila do Conde port, Brazil's biggest for live cattle shipments. In a statement on Wednesday, Para federal prosecutors recalled the Haidar wreck caused the death of 5,000 cattle and a spill of 700,000 liters of oily residues.
A subsequent spill from the Haidar wreck was reported in 2018, prosecutors said, showing that remaining residues inside the hull represent "a constant threat"...
The sunken vessel still contains carcasses and skeletal remains of the cattle drowned in 2015, they said. Prosecutors are seeking at least 5 million reais ($936,873) in compensation, in addition to 91,400 reais for environmental damages related to the 2018 spill. Defendants include the federal infrastructure department DNIT, Para's environment agency SEMAS, the Para Port Authority CDP, and the companies that owned the ship.
They did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.
Beefpacker Minerva owned the cattle ferried on the Haidar in 2015, but it is not a defendant...