 The vessel, which would become the first "Valemax" ship built in Japan, was delivered in December 2019 as "NSU Carajas".A second vessel was ordered in June 2017 and a third later that year.On 24 May 2011, "Vale Brasil" received her first cargo at the Brazilian port Terminal Marítimo de Ponta da Madeira, 391,000 tons of iron ore bound for Dalian in China.