After a long period without activities, Estaleiro Enseada and other companies in the naval sector intend to resume their offshore activities at the beginning of the next government, in 2023

The offshore ship industry, which had investments that reached R$ 3 billion, generated more than 5 thousand direct jobs.

Today, the Enseada Shipyard expects that the demand for offshore ship structures will increase in the coming years and expects a greater number of offshore projects in Brazil, boosting the return of billionaire investments in the shipyard, according to a statement by its president to the newspaper. Economic value. All shipyards in Brazil expressed hope for the recovery of the offshore sector in the next government.

The expectation for a return in investments in the ship sector became more solid, since it was in the PT government that the policy of at least 70% of domestic content was established for the supply of materials to Petrobras. However, even if this policy does not return, Petrobras will need 45 ships to support the new oil platforms, which could, in part, be built in Brazil.

Investments in Brazilian shipyards

According to Pedro Cavalcanti, a professor at the graduate school in economics (EPGE) at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), there is no point in resuming the incentive policy with a minimum local content of 70%, since, for him, the policy only established quantities, without productivity targets, delaying innovation.

Since the government of former President Michel Temer, the minimum percentage of domestic content for shipyards has been set between 18% and 50% and is signed at auctions by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP).

For the general coordinator of the Single Federation of Petroleum Workers (FUP), David Bacelar, the hiring, by Petrobras, of the construction of 14 ship platforms in Asia means the “export” of 1,5 million jobs. Currently, Petrobras has made an international bid to build two oil platforms: the P-80 and the P-82, won by the Singaporean Keppel Shipyard.

O business plan of Petrobras for the period corresponding to the years 2022-2026 indicates that 12 platform ships are under construction and there is a unit in the bidding phase. As much as it is intensive in the use of labor, the offshore sector depends on qualified professionals, capable of guaranteeing high productivity. This was another of the problems faced by new shipyards in the 2000s. At the peak of the sector, in 2014, more than 82 jobs were created.