Galictio enters the Brazilian naval industry with a project on a supertanker
The company has achieved a painting contract for two million euros
Four years after beginning efforts to break into the Brazilian naval sector, Galictio has achieved its goal. The company has just signed a contract with the Atlántico Sul shipyard - the largest in the southern hemisphere - for the painting of the ballast tanks of a supertanker. The order is valued at two million euros and will be decisive for the establishment of Galictio in the country.
Isidro Silveira, manager of the company, explained that it will be the first step and will be "the test of competitiveness and quality" that will determine the continuity of the firm in Brazil. The Atlántico Sul shipyard is currently manufacturing eight supertankers, two of which have already been delivered. Galictio will intervene in the third, but its intention is to continue providing the same services on the rest of the vessels, whose construction will take place until 2022.
The company will send 13 workers from its large projects division, located in Asturias, to Brazil, where in the first phase they will train 40 operators from the country. The Brazilian authorities determine that only 20% of the production carried out in their territory is carried out by foreign personnel, so in the second phase there will only be about 8 operators from the Galician firm.
After the signing of the order, work in the country will begin on the 15th of next February, and will continue for the next seven months. In total, the operators will paint about 60,000 thousand meters on the tanks of the aforementioned ship.
For Galictio, entering the demanding Brazilian market is an opportunity to generate income and workload, since the country's naval industry is in the process of expansion and has great growth expectations, in line with the discovery of new oil fields in ultra-deep waters.
Although initially Galictio's first procedures in Brazil were aimed at promoting the construction of a ship repair yard in the port of Suapes, later this project was frozen, and the search for work HE focused on the area of new constructions.
