The Navy's corvettes are a promise of recovery for the naval industry in Brazil and promise to generate 8 jobs at the Oceana shipyard in Itajaí, SC.

Good news for SC professionals, 8 jobs are expected at the Oceana shipyard in Itajaí, after the Federal Audit Court (TCU) released the signing of the contract between the Águas Azuis consortium and the Brazilian Navy. Next year promises! The giant Modec estimates opening 800 jobs in Brazil in the offshore and corporate segment

The contract between the Águas Azuis consortium, which is formed by the Brazilian Embraer and the German Thyssen, and the Navy, provides for the construction of four Tamandaré class corvettes.

The missile-launching corvettes are valued between US$ 1,6 billion (R$ 6,6 billion) and US$ 2 billion (R$ 8,2 billion) – a project that promises to give new life to the shipbuilding industry.

The Oceana shipyard, located in Itajaí (SC), was chosen by the Águas Azuis consortium for the construction of the corvettes, which it estimates will move from 2021, when construction begins, more than two thousand new direct job openings and another six thousand indirect ones being from the Brazilian Navy, in addition to a supply chain by the State.

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The new corvettes will have 31,6% of national content for the first ship, and 41% for the other three vessels, thus guaranteeing the transfer of technologies and training of national labor.

The forecast is that the vessels will be delivered between 2024 and 2028. With TCU's approval, the signing of the contract will be formalized after the turn of the year due to the laborious process for completing the documents on which the contract is based.

“Itajaí and Santa Catarina won the Mega Sena of the century” The phrase is from the reserve general of the Brazilian Army, Adhemar da Costa Machado Filho, who works to bring together industry and the defense sector. He is referring to the opportunities that will come with the construction of Navy corvettes in the state.

The success of the efforts in the corvette project is an opportunity for the Brazilian shipbuilding industry to resume, which has been shaken since the crisis that gripped Petrobras as a result of Operation Lavaja Jato.

At the moment the sector is also engaged in other fronts, such as the construction of five submarines (one of them nuclear propulsion) of the Submarine Development Program (Prosub)

Itajai intends to become a cluster of the naval defense industry, there is no shortage of manpower, the region employed 10 thousand workers in the golden age of oil, when the offshore shipyards were in full activity and currently, it does not employ more than 1,5, XNUMX thousand.

The expectation is that the construction of the corvettes will bring new projects to the local industry. The Brazilian Navy plans to build a new patrol vessel, which may be used on missions in Antarctica.

There is also room for international production: the armed forces of Paraguay and Chile have already shown interest in using the services of the Águas Azuis consortium.