PETIT defends policy of national content and criticizes dependence on imports of the state -owned company
The President (PT) stated on Monday (24.Fev.2025) that he has already threatened to dismiss a president of for not following his determination on national content policy. He didn’t mention names.
During the event of the contract of the Petrobras fleet expansion program and, in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Lula cited the intention of a state -owned president to buy a South Korea probe.
“I said: won’t buy. If you buy, the same pen that put you in the presidency, will get you out of the presidency. We will do it here ”these.
Naval industry
The event marked the signing of the Transpetro contract with the Rio Grande and Mac Laren shipyards to the class Handywith capacity of 15 to 18 thousand TPB (tons of gross size) for the transport of derivatives on the Brazilian coast. Each unit costs US $ 69.5 million. The hooves will be built in Rio Grande and finished at the Ecovix Mac Laren shipyard in Niterói (RJ).
The launch of the 1st ship is scheduled for the 1st semester of 2026. From this date, the other 3 units will be delivered every 6 months, until 2028.
The measure is one of the campaign promises of President Lula to resume investments in the Brazilian naval industry, interrupted since Operation Lava Jato.
The bidding was launched in July last year and is part of the program of renewal and expansion of the state fleet. In total, R $ 23 billion will be invested for the construction of 44 vessels up to 2029.
“Since 2016 we have stopped the construction of the hooves. And we spent 8 years in a very difficult situation, as everyone knows ”said José Antunes Sobrinho, shareholder of Ecovix.
According to him, the shipyard should resume jobs for pre-2016 levels gradually. “Potentially, in Rio Grande, we have about 5,000 jobs without stressing. Much of here or related to the region ”these.
