With a capacity of 2 tons and intended for cabotage transport, container ships will be built at the Enseada shipyard, Bahia, and promise to stir up the region's naval market

Bahia's shipbuilding sector is beginning to show signs of a strategy for economic recovery, after six years in a state of suspension. In July, the naval company Petrocity Portos SA announced a partnership with Estaleiro Enseada for the construction of two container ships, with funding approved by the Fundo Nacional de Marinha Mercante.

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The president of Petrocity, José Roberto Barbosa da Silva, paid a visit last Friday (11th) to the installations of the Enseada Shipyard in Bahia to inspect the works at the place that will be the stage for the construction of two container ships, which will be cabotage transport, with capacity for 2 thousand tons.

The total amount of investment for the construction of the two large ships at the Enseada Shipyard in Bahia will be R$ 617 million, where each ship will cost, in accordance with Resolution 174/2020, the global amount of 73,443 million US dollars, approximately R$308,5 million.

Construction of ships promises to generate jobs in Bahia

Destined for cabotage transport (between national ports) from January 2021, the construction of the two 1.500-foot ships (75 TEUS) at the Enseada shipyard will generate 750 jobs in Maragogipe, Bahia.

According to the president of Petrocity Portos, the completion of the construction of the ships is expected to take place even before the end of the work on the port in Urussuquara, in São Mateus (ES), which will operate from the Enseada Shipyard itself.

This is the first large-scale contract for the Enseada shipyard, since the naval crisis was hit due to Operation Lava Jato. It is worth mentioning that the Enseada Shipyard initially belonged to a consortium formed by Odebrecht Engenharia Industrial, OAS and UTC Engenharia. Currently, the industry belongs only to Odebrecht Engenharia, which is also Petrocity's partner in building the port.

About Petrocity Ports and Shipyards

Created in 2013, the PetroCity Portos S/A is a company founded by a group of executives with extensive experience in the logistics and financial sector, with the participation of shareholders from Brazil and abroad.

With the objective of promoting the economic and social development of Brazil in a sustainable way through the implementation and administration of modern concepts of modals, PetroCity conceived in its entirety the project of the Port Complex of Urussuquara - the Integration Port, which consists of the main tool of economic interiorization and regional integration to be implemented in Southeast Brazil.