Brazilian shipbuilding industry, the main representative of this industry in Latin America, has been very active during the 70s and 80s. Afterwards it has experimented a deep decline. The main preserved construction niche was devoted to supply boats for offshore operations. More recently, due to a political decision from the federal government, most of the orders for offshore platforms and large ocean ships have been placed in the national shipyards. This policy generated some industrial initiatives with the establishment of new shipyards and the recovery of others which had provided considerable output in the past decades. Recent concluded floating.
