Mr. Jose Sergio De Oliveira Machado served as the Chief Executive Officer at Petrobras Transporte S.A. Mr. Machado served as federal deputy from 1991 to 1995 and senator from 1995 to 2002. He was also secretary of the State Government of Ceará from 1987 to 1990 and president of the Industrial Center of Ceará since 1982. As a senator, he was a leader of his former party, PSDB, between 1995 and 2001. He Graduated in Business Administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro.
By Jose Sergio de Oliveira Machado on Transpetro incident.
José Sérgio de Oliveira Machado – When we arrived at Transpetro, the big question, for commitment assumed by President Lula, was rebuild the shipbuilding industry in Brazil. The countries that dominate 50% of international trade have 72% of the fleet of ships. This is no accident. More than 80% of world trade is done in ships – 95% in Brazil. The problem of a country that needs ships, like ours, is that while the world is moving from the fourth to the fifth generation in the yards, parked on Monday. While the world is built a large tanker between seven and 12 months in Brazil we take 24-30 months. As the world produced 1,174 ships last year, a move of $ 70 billion, Brazil commissioned its last ship 20 years ago. We fail to generate employment and income and we were vulnerable. Today we have 120 tankers – only 47 ours, and yet with an average age of 17 years. Last year, we spent with shipping $ 10 billion. It is three times what the government will invest at all in Brazil – road, health, energy, education. The great contradiction is that, 52 years after the creation of Petrobras, we are reaching self-sufficiency in oil production, but we are totally dependent on transport. I took to this tremendous challenge.
By Jose Sergio de Oliveira Machado on Transpetro incident.
José Sérgio de Oliveira Machado – When we arrived at Transpetro, the big question, for commitment assumed by President Lula, was rebuild the shipbuilding industry in Brazil. The countries that dominate 50% of international trade have 72% of the fleet of ships. This is no accident. More than 80% of world trade is done in ships – 95% in Brazil. The problem of a country that needs ships, like ours, is that while the world is moving from the fourth to the fifth generation in the yards, parked on Monday. While the world is built a large tanker between seven and 12 months in Brazil we take 24-30 months. As the world produced 1,174 ships last year, a move of $ 70 billion, Brazil commissioned its last ship 20 years ago. We fail to generate employment and income and we were vulnerable. Today we have 120 tankers – only 47 ours, and yet with an average age of 17 years. Last year, we spent with shipping $ 10 billion. It is three times what the government will invest at all in Brazil – road, health, energy, education. The great contradiction is that, 52 years after the creation of Petrobras, we are reaching self-sufficiency in oil production, but we are totally dependent on transport. I took to this tremendous challenge.