Avaliação da capacidade de construção naval no país para implementação do programa de reaparelhamento da Marinha: capacidade da indústria naval brasileira para atender a demanda do Plano de Articulação e Equipamentos da Marinha do Brasil

Abstract

With the purpose to attend the National Defense Strategy, the Brazilian Navy developed its Plan of Articulation and Equipments, which includes the acquisition of a substantial number of naval vessels to be built in Brazil, in the 2011 to 2030 temporal frame. The purchase of these ships, due to its amount and technological complexity, makes it mandatory the engagement of national private shipyards, in partnership with the industries of ship parts, with the encouragement of domestic industry, generating direct and indirect employment and the contribution to the socioeconomic development of Brazil. The Brazilian shipbuilding industry in the late 70’s, held the place of 2nd largest global constructor and as from the 80’s began a period of decadence that lasted more than twenty years. The current situation, the result of rising demand of the industry “offshore”, points to an expansion of this sector, with the reduced availability of the domestic private shipyards, living together with the scarcity of qualified manpower and in the limit of their technical and industrial capabilities. The renovation of the national merchant fleet and the newly discovered pre-salt oil are creating demands that can overcome the current capacity of the national private shipyards. Making of these shipyards can share their current activities at lower risk and to create way for the new challenge of building naval vessels with high complexity is a hard task to be accomplished. Therefore, as the central theme of this Monography, a detailed study to evaluate the capacity of the Brazilian shipbuilding industry to attend the demand of the Plan of Articulation and Equipments of the Brazilian Navy.