Amazonas and Its Explosion of 6,500 Jobs in the Shipbuilding Industry

The Naval Sector in Amazonas Doesn’t Even Feel Tickled, It Seems Like the State Doesn’t Exist in Brazil

While the rest of the country is wrapped in a smoke screen in the sector, as you can check in the article where The Naval Industry Has Already Laid Off 50 Thousand, Amazonas stands out among the others because it remains stable in the region. The Union of the Naval Construction Industry of Amazonas (Sindnaval) released satisfactory data and statistics that surprised Brazil. Nowadays, 6,500 direct opportunities are maintained in the locality because there, in Amazonas, the naval industry does not solely depend on Petrobras to drive the economy.

With a large portfolio of services outside the oil sector, the main orders that the naval hub of Amazonas receives are for:

• Export of steel to China and other countries
• Production and export of soybeans
• Manufacturing of vessels for passenger transport

The workforce is also stable. This happens because there is a remarkable balance between employability and layoffs, which vary around 5% to 8%. Matheus Araújo, president of Sinaval, said that the North Region leads the sector there. Following closely, another fifteen states are also in the same rhythm, using Bahia and Maranhão as examples, which always order vessels from Manaus.

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Matheus exclaimed that this will serve as a lesson for the rest of the country, and that we cannot have only one major client to drive the sector’s economy. Taking the South and Southeast regions of the country as an example, which are entirely dependent on Petrobras, which literally eliminated more than 30 thousand job positions in shipyards, most of which are from Rio Grande, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with about 28 thousand workers laid off.

Have We Learned the Lesson?

Taking Amazonas as an example to be followed, Brazil needs to be enlightened that the naval and offshore industry are not the only ones with the potential to make the public and economic machine turn. We are a country with energy, water, and agricultural resources different from other regions of the world. Do the bigshots at the top know this?

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