Estaleiro Mauá

Mauá Shipyard SA
Aerial view of Mauá Shipyard located in the city of Niterói, with Guanabara Bay in the background.
Native name
Estaleiro Mauá
Company typeS.A.
IndustryShipbuilding, Defence
PredecessorEstabelecimento de Fundição e Estaleiros Ponta da Areia
Founded1846; 178 years ago (1846)
Headquarters
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro (state)
,
Brazil
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Viscount of Mauá
ProductsOil tanker, Oil platform, Patrol Boats, Fishing Vessels, Work boats, Platform supply vessels, Research vessels, Tugboats
ServicesShipbuilding and services

Mauá Shipyard SA is the oldest private Brazilian shipyard, being surpassed only by the state-owned Arsenal da Marinha do Brasil, which was founded in 1808.[1][2] Its origin is the Anglo-Brazilian company Estabelecimento de Fundição e Estaleiros da Ponta d'Areia, located in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, and was bought on August 11, 1846, by Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, at the time Baron of Mauá.[3]

In 2000, the company entered into a joint-venture with Jurong Shipyard in Singapore, creating the company Mauá Jurong S/A (MJ). The new company, in addition to the construction and repair of ships, specializes in the construction of platforms for oil and gas exploration.[3]

The shipyard remains in operation, even with the crisis installed in Brazil.

Recent vessel production

A not extensive list of Mauá's production:

Name Launched Size Note
Celso Furtado 24 June 2010[4] 48,300 DWT Oil tanker
Rômulo Almeida 30 June 2011[5] 48,300 DWT Oil tanker
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda 7 July 2012[6] 48,300 DWT Oil tanker
José Alencar 14 January 2014[7] 48,300 DWT Oil tanker

See also

Further reading

  • Marchant, Anyda (1965). Viscount Mauá and the empire of Brazil: a biography of Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, 1813–1889. University of California Press.

References

  1. ^ "South America.; The Great Coffee Product of Brazil-- New-York Losing the Trade-- Brazilian Emancipation-- Railway Loans and Amazonian Navigation Contracts-- General News". New York Times. 22 August 1871. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  2. ^ Ferreira, Domingos P. C. Branco (1983). The Navy of Brazil: An Emerging Power at Sea. National Defense University.
  3. ^ a b "Marítima Petróleo compra metade do Estaleiro Mauá". Folha de S.Paulo. 1999. Archived from the original on 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  4. ^ "Estaleiro Mauá lança ao mar o petroleiro "Celso Furtado" (with photo)". Sinaval. 1 Aug 2010.
  5. ^ "Estaleiro Mauá lança ao mar o petroleiro Rômulo Almeida (with photo)". Sinaval. 30 June 2011.
  6. ^ "Transpetro comemora dois anos de operação do navio Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (with photo)". Transpetro. 7 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Transpetro coloca petroleiro José Alencar em operação (with photo)". O Estado de S. Paulo. 14 January 2014.
  • (in Brazilian Portuguese) Official site Archived 2022-01-31 at the Wayback Machine

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