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www.marinelink.com 87also been strengthened by partnerships with ma-jor shipbuilders such as Hyundai Heavy Indus-tries from South Korea and other major players from Japan, Singapore and Europe. These strate- gic partnerships generally involve not only tech-nological transfer but also a wealth of experience in efÞ cient ship design and shipbuilding practices and procedures which promise to sharpen the learning curve of Brazilian shipyards, decreas-ing the time local shipyards will need to become competitive internationally. These partnerships will also help attract foreign clients to local ship-yard because they will potentially increase a pro-spective client?s con Þ dence that they will receive quality products at the agreed deadline, yet there is still a long way to go in order to consolidate the Brazilian shipbuilding industry and make it attractive to international clients. For now the industry will continue to depend on Petrobras orders, which evidence from Petrobras? business plans shows will continue to be forthcoming for at least another decade. However, the industry can by no means become complacent as foreign ship-yards are also looking to attract Petrobras orders.Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said last April, during the ceremony prior to the maiden voyage of the tanker Sea Dragon and the baptism of the cargo ship Henrique Dias at the EAS ship- yard, ?I am proud that we have rebuilt the ship-building industry. We have radically changed our buying policy in order to choose local products.? The Brazilian President believes Brazil needs the shipbuilding industry to become richer and strongly defended federal investments in the sec-tor. With guaranteed government support, along with large orders from Petrobras, the Brazilian Shipbuilding Industry growth curve is set to con-tinue rising for at least another decade.Serving the Galveston, Houston and Texas Gulf Coast area, Malin International Ship Repair & Drydock is a full service topside repair facility ready to handle your scheduled or emergency repairs. s ! L L T Y P E S O F 2 I G S 3 U B S E A # O N S T R U C T I O N A N D / F F S H O R E S P E C I A L T Y V E S S E L S 4 A N K E R S A N D # A R G O 3 H I P S s ' / - / F F S H O R E 2 E P A I R 2 I D I N G 4 R A V E L L I N G # R E W S s & U L L S E R V I C E M A C H I N E S H O P 3 & & A B R I C A T I O N 3 H O P s / V E R F E E T O F 7 E T " E R T H S P A C E A T T H E P I E R MR #8 (82-89).indd 87MR #8 (82-89).indd 878/5/2014 10:07:15 AM8/5/2014 10:07:15 AM
