On April 19, 2022, the research vessel Ciências do Mar III received a visit from Mrs. Olga Anokhina (Director of the CNRS-France Representative Office for South America), from Dr. Ioanna Bouloubassi (Sorbonne Université, France) and professors Livia Maria de Freitas Reis and Adriana Maciel from UFF’s Superintendence of International Relations. On the occasion, Professor Ana Luiza Spadano Albuquerque, a member of the ship’s steering committee, presented the ship’s facilities, its laboratories and installed scientific equipment, demonstrating the ship’s ability to carry out research in the various areas of oceanography in regions up to 300 meters deep. The institutions are currently working on the development of a partnership in scientific projects applied to marine sciences with the ship serving as a support platform for these researches.