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Table 1 – Merchant Marine Fund AMARAL, 2014). During the 1990s, with “a) research and mining of oil and nat-
economic liberalization and deregulation ural gas deposits and other fluid hydro-
Year Number of completed projects Onlending of financing proposed by the government, the sector carbons; b) the refining of domestic or
Vessels Shipyards resources to the naval industry suffered another setback. The impact of foreign oil; c) the import and export
(in billions)
this whole scenario was the devaluation of of basic products and derivatives re-
2007 33 0 1.10 the country’s industry, with national ship- sulting from the activities provided for
2008 51 1 1.30 in the previous items; d) the maritime
2009 36 0 2.30 owners not being considered internation-
2010 40 1 2.60 ally competitive, the retraction in interna- transport of crude oil of national origin
2011 60 2 2.60 tional orders and the credit for the naval or of basic oil derivatives produced in
2012 30 0 4.10 industry decreasing (SINAVAL, n/d). As a re- the Country, as well as the transport,
2013 76 4 4.50
2014 89 2 4.00 sult of these conditions, there is shrinkage through pipeline, of crude oil, its deriv-
2015 70 2 4.90 in the Brazilian fleet. atives and natural gas”. 3
2016 119 0 2.80 Figure 4 above shows the aforemen-
2017 82 2 2.30 tioned oscillations in the national ship- As of 1997, and as a result of the afore-
2018 54 0 2.60
2019 53 0 2.00 building industry. It is possible to observe mentioned law, the naval industry was lev-
2020 92 1 0.35 the retraction of the sector, especially in the eraged by oil operators, especially Petrobras
2021 46 0 0.21 1990s. The subsequent recovery is dealt with the Renewal Program of the Maritime
Total 931 15 37.67 with in the following subsection. Support Fleet I (Prorefam I) in 1999 (PIRES;
Source: Own elaboration, based on the Ministry of Integration’s website 3 GOMIDE; AMARAL, 2014).
Figure 4 – Evolution of the number of employees and the volume 3.4. The importance of the oil and According to D’Avila and Bridi (2017),
of production in the Brazilian naval industry 1960-2009 gas sector in this first phase, 22 vessels were ordered,
The sector would once again receive gov- of which 19 were delivered. In the second
3,5 49,0
ernment attention, however, in 1997, with phase of the program, 30 more vessels and
Law 9,478, specific to the oil and gas sector. 21 vessel modernizations were ordered. In
3,0 42,0
Based on this legal framework, a new phase the third and final phase of the program,
Production (in millions of TPB’s) 2,0 28,0 Employees (in thousands) not only dealing with maritime transport, Neto and Paula (2014), the volume of ves-
starting in 2008, another 146 new vessels
begins for the naval industry, leveraged by
35,0
2,5
Petrobras’ investments and demands.
were ordered. According to Barat, Campos
Law 9,478/1997 presents itself as broad,
sels ordered in the three phases of the Pro-
21,0
1,5
gram totaled 223.
but with the legal and organizational struc-
ture of the oil and gas sector. It is through
In parallel with the programs developed
14,0
1,0
this legal diploma that the National Petro-
leum Agency (ANP) is created and the state
initiatives. One of them, important for the
7,0
0,5
Naval industry, was the Navega Brasil Pro-
monopoly in the sector is broken, allowing, by Petrobras, there were other government
0,0 0,0 in its Art. 5 that the activities highlighted be- gram, carried out in the 2000s, which ad-
1960 1961 1965 1970 1971 1974 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1981 1985 1990 1996 1997 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 low become subject to concession, authori- dressed credit improvement actions for the

Fase zation or contracting under the production naval sector, with an increase in values and
sharing regime, by companies incorporated credit financing terms.
Contracted TPBs TPBs delivered Employees
under Brazilian law, with headquarters and Another initiative led by the Ministries
Source: BARAT; FIELDS NETO; PAULA, 2014, p.64 administration in the country. of Mines and Energy, Industry and Trade
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