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With the launch of the Inter XVIII tug, the shipyard begins production of its line of multi-purpose marine tugs
The Estaleiro Indústria Naval Catarinense (INC), in Navegantes, launched this Thursday, 18th, the multipurpose tug Inter XVIII.
The vessel was designed and fully developed at the Santa Catarina shipyard, took eight months to complete and is considered a tug with high installed power. She now undergoes a battery of tests in the water and then continues sailing to Guaratuba, in Paraná, where she should operate for the next few years. The INC shipyard is the shipbuilding arm of the Internacional Marítima holding, operating in the North, Northeast, South and Southeast regions.
The Inter XVIII tug is 20,9 meters long, has a beam of 6,5 meters, 3,13 meters in depth, 109 gross tonnage and two engines of 829 horsepower each.
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The director of the INC shipyard, Josuan Moraes Júnior, says that the vessel is an order from the shipyard's controlling holding company and that after operations in Paraná it will enter the spot market to carry out ocean, port and waterway towing.
Josuan says that this tug is the first built at the shipyard, which already built other types of vessels such as barges, ferries, passenger catamarans, floating docks, among others. INC's technical staff has expertise acquired in the construction of more than one hundred tugboats in other shipyards. He adds that in addition to this tug for the Internacional Marítima group, the INC already has other budgets in place and is in negotiations with shipowners to build more tugs, adding this new market segment to the shipyard's portfolio. “This vessel marks the beginning of the INC tugboat line”, he celebrates.
The INC begins this year with bold projects: in addition to new tugboats, it wants to build in 2024 ferry boats for vehicles and passengers, barges for transporting cargo in holds, barges for the transport of petroleum derivatives, as well as naval repair works and maintenance contracts, which are constant in the company.
Expertise
The INC shipyard has been operating for around six years on the left bank of the Itajaí-Açu river, in the Volta Grande neighborhood, and generates an average of 130 direct jobs between its own and outsourced labor. The company also has its main suppliers and service providers in the region, which guarantees the movement of the entire shipbuilding cluster in the region.
The shipyard has the capacity to process up to 200 tons of steel per month and has recently started producing aluminum vessels.
In this first quarter, INC begins the construction of a floating dock, which will allow vessels to be docked and undocked with greater safety and agility and the increase and modernization of its production area, and for this purpose it obtained priority resources from the merchant marine fund in last December.
