Ipanema Views Blocked by Cargo Ships Angers Rio Hoteliers

A new vista is competing with the sun, surf and swimsuits at Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Copacabana and Ipanema beaches: a traffic jam of cargo ships belching exhaust that has hoteliers crying foul.

Cargo traffic at Rio’s port has almost tripled in the past three years as trade from Brazil’s second-largest city grows and Petroleo Brasileiro SA, the world’s largest deep-water oil driller, expands its servicing of ships and rigs developing recent offshore finds.