Despite the lack of orders from the offshore market, shipyards receive ship orders and shipbuilding focuses on the opportunities that will arise in the coming years

Our century-old and once much praised shipbuilding industry is gradually leaving the “ICU” where it breathed “with the help of machines”. After funding was approved and granted to the Enseada de Maragogipe Shipyard (BA), optimism is gradually returning to the entire shipbuilding sector.

Check the contracts won and negotiations of each shipyard

Cove, Maragogipe (BA)

Will build 2 container ships of 2.000 tons for Petrocity Portos S.The funding for which was approved by the National Merchant Marine Fund last July and amounted to R$ 617 million for the two vessels. The expectation is to generate 750 direct jobs, reaching 3 jobs with indirect jobs.

Oceana Shipyard, Itajaí (SC)

It will build 4 Tamandaré class frigates for the Brazilian Navy and is undoubtedly the biggest contract in this new phase of Brazilian shipbuilding. Estimated at BRL 6 billion reais, the contract has already been moved with the acquisition of the Itajaí shipyard by the German Thyssenkrupp and hiring for engineering detailing has already begun. It is estimated that two thousand workers will be hired and another 6 thousand indirect jobs will be generated in the Itajaí naval cluster.

Negotiations at Brasfels (RJ), Jurong (ES), ERG and EBR (RS) Shipyards

In the field of negotiations, we can mention, as works with a high probability of happening, the projects for the resumption of the Sete Brasil rigs, sold to the investor fund formed by Magni Partners and Mubadala, with construction stopped at Estaleiros Brasfels, in Angra (RJ ) and Jurong, in Aracruz (ES) and the few services in the offshore sector that are the MV-31 and MV-32 modules won by Brasfels (RJ) and EBR (RS).

We also highlight the negotiation between ECOVIX, controller of the Rio Grande shipyard, in Rio Grande (RS) and the Chilean group ASMAR for the construction of a polar ship for the Brazilian Navy that could generate 5 jobs in the southern naval hub.

Not to mention ongoing projects, such as those at the ICN shipyard, in Itaguaí (RJ), which builds 4 conventional submarines and 1 nuclear submarine for the Brazilian Navy, with a Metallic Structure Factory installed on site.

As you can see, the works are taking place at the shipyards, not at the pace we would like and not generating jobs as before, but the slow recovery of Brazilian shipbuilding is making everyone who depends on it optimistic.

By Renato Oliveira

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