Sergio Machado hopeful Shipbuilding may invest up to US $ 40 billion

Sergio Machado hopeful Shipbuilding may invest up to US $ 40 billion

Platforms, rigs, tankers and support vessels in billions orders from Petrobras can make Brazil a mecca for the shipping industry investments in the coming years. The values reached US $ 17 billion initially (between 2009 and 2010) and may go to $ 40 billion by 2012. The Brazilian market already has the fifth largest order book in the world, with developments for construction of up to 17 shipyards, according to industry sources.

Most projects, however, are waiting tender to carry out the investments alone range from $ 100 million to $ 1 billion. President of Transpetro Jose Sergio de Oliveira Machado says that first there was a boom of resurgence of  Brazilian naval industry, after 20 years without orders followed by virtual shipyard, now a reality, and investments in modernization and expansion . In addition to 26 new tankers - of which 18 are trading and eight will be tendered within 60 days the envelopes with the proposals for the construction of eight hulls in series to vessels- platform that will operate in Tupi.

The Rio government is mediating at least two large trades. In addition to having encouraged the construction of four shipyards in Industrial Complex Stuck Bar in the Norte Fluminense, the government wants to attract investors to an area in Itaguai, in the southern state, the area near the port.

Because of its length on the banks of Guanabara Bay and its quiet, the area could host the simultaneous construction of up to two platforms FPSO-vessels (production and storage of oil), the type being ordered to Tupi. 

The idea is to repeat in Rio lease of a dry dock custom built by Petrobras in Rio Grande do Sul, and is offered in tenders for companies interested in the work. The area belongs to the Rio Iesa groups and Banco Fator.