Brazil's antitrust regulator approved a joint venture betweenEike Batista's EBX group and Britain's Strategis Ltd, part of BPGroup, to sell bunker fuels at Acu Port, Brazil'sofficial gazette said on Thursday.
The venture, called NFX, will lease space at the portnortheast of Rio de Janeiro from logistics firm LLX.NFX was conceived before Batista sold his controlling stake inLLX to EIG Global Energy Partners.