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helicopters and via supply vessels.” Mr Biasoli went on to say that Brazilian
billionaire and entrepreneur Eike Batista was also building a new port, Porto Acu, in the north of Rio de Janeiro state which will eventually provide many port services for the offshore industry, especially for the Campos Basin. He told OSJ: “At the moment there is just the port of Macae serving the Campos Basin, and Macae just doesn’t have enough capacity to deal with all the requirements. There are many new developments still to come in the Campos Basin, and that is aside from the recent pre-salt finds. With new oilfields being explored and exploited every day this industry is only just beginning to grow. We want to be part of it.”
Mr Basioli used to work in the oil industry – for Shell out of their London office – and has an excellent pedigree for a move into the Brazilian offshore sector. Some of the recently appointed executives at Grupo Libra are also from oil companies, and so the family-owned company already seems to be positioning and preparing itself for this departure from its core business. Although switching from the container business to the offshore industry may not seem like a natural progression, several other companies in Brazil are doing the same thing and others are considering doing so. Remember that about seven years ago, diversified shipping group????? (which was then operating in container terminals, shipping agency, tugs and a small shipyard) decided to give up its dredging company (Dragaport) and invest the money in building offshore vessels. It now operates a small fleet of OSVs.
Then there is also the main rival to Libra’s Rio de Janeiro box operation, LibraRio. Multiterminais group operates the MultiRio box terminal, and the management there are also considering a future in oil.
Richard Klien, the president of Multiterminais, told OSJ that the upgrade for the two box terminals in Rio de Janeiro would give Libra and Multiterminais more than 1km of continuous pier.
“This will become the longest continuous pier in Brazil, and the extra capacity will give us the opportunity to offer more port services for the offshore oil and gas industry, for which there is currently a shortage,” he explained. Mr Klien added that, even today, MultiRio is the import destination for much of the supplies destined for the oil rigs. They are unloaded at MultiRio and then are trucked just a few hundred yards to the awaiting PSVs which berth at the adjacent quays in São Cristóvão terminal: all part of the Rio de Janeiro port authority area. The Multiterminais president said that he was also ready to go public with a plan to build a new base for OSVs on a Greenfield site in the Guanabara
Bay area; more of that in a future issue of OSJ. Meanwhile, efforts are also being made to address one of the other major problems affecting the offshore sector – the shortage of officers and crew that is plaguing offshore vessel operators in Brazil today. Ronaldo Lima, president of the Brazilian offshore support vessel operators association (ABEAM) said that one of the main impediments to progress in this sector was the intransigence of
Sindmar, the Brazilian Naval Officers
Association, which is reluctant to accept that there was a problem in the first place. He told OSJ: “In recent years we based some of our arguments on a study carried out by the
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