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as anchor handlers, oil spill response der to design and equip four PSVs for Bravante has more recently placed vessels, tankers, barges, tugboats, and the Bravante Group in 2013. The UT multiple orders for PSVs with Eastern auxiliary motorboats. The company also 775 SE PSVs were designed to carry Shipbuilding Group, through Brazil- provides other offshore support servic- deck cargo, pipes and diesel oil to and based Boldini SA, which will own the es, including bunker fuel transportation, from offshore oil and gas platforms, vessels. Marcelino Nascimento, ex- transport of offshore provisions and the chartered by Petrobras. The Bravante plained why Bravante sourced a num- use of preventive containment booms in Group build the vessels at its ship yard ber of its PSVs in the United States. cases of suspected leaks, along with ded- in Niteroi, across the bay from the city “Bravante decided to source part of its icated onboard environmental coordina- of Rio de Janeiro. Anders Almestad,