Transpetro to launch first Promef vessel
Transpetro vessel at Atlantico Sul Shipyard
The Suezmax-type vessel is 274 m long and capable of carrying a million barrels of oil.
This is the first tanker built in Brazil to be delivered to the Petrobras System in more than 13 years, a period during which the Brazilian shipbuilding industry virtually disappeared from the radar, after having been the second biggest global manufacturer in the 1970s. Based on the Promef, one of the major structuring projects of the GAP (Growth Acceleration Program), the domestic shipyards modernized their operations and new production units, such as the Atlântico Sul, appeared in the Country. Today, Brazil already has the fifth largest oil tanker order portfolio in the world.
In its first two phases, the Promef program envisages the construction of 49 vessels in Brazil, 33 of which have already been hired. The other 16 are currently in the contracting phase. Also in this first half of the year, the second vessel of the program will also set sail, this time from the Mauá Shipyard, in Niterói (RJ).
