The Brazilian government plans to revitalize its shipbuilding industry by building a new, powerful structure for the industry in order to export more ships, according to Brazilian press sources.
In a recent interview Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Brazil was the second most important country in the world in ship production during the 1970s and that he believes that this is an opportunity for Brazil to regain its strong position within the shipbuilding industry. President Da Silva stated that there are several benefits of revitalizing the shipbuilding industry, including the creation of jobs, the use of steel produced within the country and saving payments to foreign shipping companies through the use of Brazilian vessels.
Brazil is currently building a new structure to have a powerful shipbuilding industry in the country, the Brazilian president said during his weekly radio broadcast. Brazil is to become an exporter of ships, he added.
A few days after this announcement, a tanker, named "Joao Candido", was built in the country for the first time in 13 years.