University of São Paulo (USP). This showed, even some three years ago, that we were heading for a serious crisis because of the shortage of officers.” The study was taken up by ABEAM and also Syndarma (the Union of Brazilian Shipowners) and ABAC (the Brazilian association for coastal shipowners). The statistics and conclusions from the USP study were used by members of the associations to lobby Brasilia to try and persuade the government, the Brazilian Navy and Sindmar (the officers union) to train more officers each year. “But Sindmar, and its officials, and especially its president Severino Almeida, never believed the statistics or findings of the USP study,” said Mr Lima, so it was back to the drawing board. An American consultancy company,
Schlumberger Business Consultancy, was brought in to provide another study of the Brazilian officer training schools and requirements for the shipping industry, especially the burgeoning offshore crewing requirement. With a wry smile on his face, Mr Lima
said: “This time Sindmar was participating in the study. So they cannot criticise it. The offshore fleet
is still growing rapidly, and
the expectation is that the number of vessels operating in Brazil will rise from 450 today to more than 600 by 2015. The number of extra officers coming on stream simply isn’t keeping pace. We desperately need to catch up and this is a challenge for the sector. It will take at least 4-5 years to educate all the officers we need and for them to get sufficient experience will
Olympic plans Brazilian foray
As OSJ was going to press it was revealed that Olympic Offshore, the Norwegian offshore vessel company, is setting up a Brazilian subsidiary and could put itself forward to bid in the next round of tenders, for up to 90 OSVs, for Petrobras. This would be under the Prefam programme, for four- year (plus four-year) charter contracts, to plug a shortfall of Brazilian flag vessels. Olympic has already been chartering
in vessels from Italian company Augusta Offshore, for work off the Brazilian coast. Augusta has two Brazilian flag vessels, Asso Ventisette
26 and Asso Ventisei
27, which were built in the Aker Promar shipyard in Niteroi and delivered in 2007 and 2005 respectively.
According to reliable sources in Rio de Janeiro, Olympic Offshore is preparing to take over the operations of Augusta in Italy
and open up its own office. It is understood that Olympic also wants to build its own ships in Brazil and is currently applying for funding from the Brazilian Merchant Marine Fund (FMM).
Established by Captain Stig Remøy and Bjørn Kvalsund back in 1996, Olympic Shipping is based in Fosnavaag, Norway, and currently operates 19 offshore vessels worldwide, with five currently offshore Brazil.
take another 2-3 years. There is still a long way to go.” For its part, Sindmar claims that the two Brazilian officer training schools – CIAGA in Rio de Janeiro and a similar establishment in Belem, in the north of the country – are producing enough officers, and much of ABEAM’s lobbying is, in Sindmar’s view, pure “scaremongering.” Over at Transpetro, efforts to resolve the crewing shortfall are also being made. At the end of last year Sergio Machado, the president of Transpetro, enticed Eduardo Bastos over to its ranks from the international ship-management company V Ships, where he had been working for many years. The aim is to increase officer numbers and accelerate their ‘learning curve’ by intensive training and the use of simulators. OSJ
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