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38MNMay 2012ty to supply parts to meet vessel demand in less than 48 hours maxi-mum, without the need to airfreight or import emergency parts.? Tetrault said ?we're seriously com- mitted to growth in Brazilian infra- structure.? Built in 1973, the 214,000 square-meter Piracicaba facility is Caterpillar?s second facility in Brazil, employing over 5,800 peo- ple. The operation recently expanded to include assembly lines devoted to production of generator sets. Plans are to locally produce additional Cat marine and oil-and-gas products in Brazil, including medium-speed marine offerings.The first shipment of four Cat3512 DEP generator sets were deliv- ered in December to Navship, the shipbuilder in Navegantes, Brazil, operated by Edison Chouest Offshore. COMPANIES WORLDWIDE INVOLVED OFFSHOREBRAZILMichal Marcinkowski, offshore design and proposal engineer at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem in The Netherlands, said ?We've been pres- ent in the Brazilian market for 18 years now. We?ve since delivered almost 80 ships of different kinds-- among them buoy handlers, azimuth stern drive tugs and diesel-electric PSVs. All of them are a result of cooperation with Wilsons Sons, our local partners.? ?As Brazil's OSV demand grows, our main focus of course is on thePetrobras tenders,? Marcinkowski said. ?We keep on increasing our par- mmÜÜWW==EEPPPPTTFFOOPPTTJJRRMMNNNN

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==iiççïï==jj~~ááååííÉÉåå~~ååÅÅÉÉIn late 2006, Louisiana-basedEdison Chouest Offshore opened its Estaleiro Navship yard in Navegantes, Brazil, where it has 1,000 employ- ees--the largest workforce of any Chouest-owned yard. MN#5 (32-49):MN 2011 Layouts 5/7/2012 10:05 AM Page 38