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Market sources believe that there is interest in these assets, because they believe
that once they buy these ships, shut contracts of affreightment with Transpetro.
Other, cheaper, can scrapped. The amounts estimated by the state are considered
consistent, because they are based on insurance of ships.
The list of vessels is heterogeneous: ranges from new vessels, highly profitable,
even scraps and newly renovated ships but whose amount invested will not be
recovered in the sale. The state is, since 2004, making a major renovation program
of its fleet. Only two ships worth each, $ 78 million (about US $ 166 million): Ataulfo
Alves and Top Hat. Both considered new, are highly profitable: bill, each $ 50
thousand per day, according to internal sources of Transpetro.
In the rest of the list, the other 21 ships worth a maximum of US $ 7 million ( 22
million), while some were held for only $ 2 million ( 6.26 million), an amount
considered scrap in the industry if the Guapor and Guaruja.
In the list of Transpetro, there are still three ships, Lages, Lavras and Lambari, which
were held, each for US $ 3.750 million (R $ 11.8 million) but have recently
Because the state does not intend to reduce its activities, the company will have to
charter vessels - sometimes you just closed a deal with the owners of the ships that
will sell. That, experts say, may mean higher costs, loss of flexibility in operations
and opens up margins, according to another analyst who asked not to be identified,
deviations, as these charter contracts are poorly supervised.
In addition, the sale of these ships creates greater uncertainty in the shipping
industry, which began to recover just with the orders in the oil and gas sector.
Transpetro had decided to buy 49 ships, but only eight have been delivered to date.
A change in own fleet policy could put into question all other orders.
Questioned, Transpetro did not respond to the request of GLOBE, on the grounds
that it would not comment.
Asked about the possibility of sale of ships, Severino Almeida, president of the
National Union of Officers of the Merchant Marine (Sindmar) says that this business
will occur bad for Transpetro.
- It is a great effort for Transpetro, which will have a strong cost increases with the
chartering of vessels for a relatively small value before all the much larger effort
that Petrobras needs to do in this scenario is not economically interesting, there is
no arguments to justify this deal - he said.
He also noted that the Transpetro has hired several ships, even as part of former
Program for Modernization and Expansion of the Fleet (Promef) under the Growth
Acceleration Program (PAC) with estimated investments of R $ 11.2 billion. In
addition to the insecurity to these orders, the sale would mean almost anything
close to what Transpetro to pay for contracts already signed within this program