Video: Ecovix Director Plans to Hire 1,000 Workers at Shipyard

The Expectation for the Judicial Recovery of the Ecovix Shipyard in Rio Grande Is High. The Director of Ecovix Records a Video for Naval Industry Professionals

Responsible for the Rio Grande Shipyard, the Ecovix group aims to resume activities in the southern municipality that have been halted since late 2016. The company, which won a competition with Petrobras in 2010 and delivered five oil exploration platforms, has been under judicial recovery since December of that year, with the goal of restructuring its debt of R$ 7.5 billion and preserving assets currently estimated at R$ 3.4 billion.

Ecovix has developed a judicial recovery plan that it hopes will be approved soon to implement new proposals for the shipyard in the Southern Half of the State. The company is now awaiting a judicial decision on the creditors’ assembly to put the plans into motion. Among the ideas raised by the company is involvement in port activities (with docking of vessels and cargo handling), repairs on oil platforms and ships, steel processing for the metalworking industry, and completion of platform P-71.

This last structure began construction at the Rio Grande Shipyard, but Petrobras chose to relocate the order to Asia. Ecovix’s goal is to leverage what has already been done and build an oil platform that does not necessarily need to be allocated to the state-owned company, allowing it to negotiate with another company in the market.

Video from the Director of Ecovix

The Executive Director of Ecovix, Christiano Morales, said during a visit to the Jornal do Comércio this Tuesday (17) that the expectation is to assemble this platform in partnership with the Japanese group Toyo, which operates the EBR shipyard in São José do Norte. The resumption of operations in Rio Grande would create 600 jobs in the first phase, potentially reaching around 1,000 jobs in a second phase.