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INTERVIEW: MARCIO CASTRO, WILSON SONS “We have a close relationship with our shipyard ... and with

Damen, who help us a lot with its projects and its long experience as a ship builder.

Damen knows everything about equipment and new technologies being used/ launched globally and plays an important role of ering the best solution to be implemented.”

Marcio Castro,

Wilson Sons

Photo courtesy Wilson Sons

We are also investing in new technologies that can improve mentioned, we will be delivering six new tugboats from Q1 the ef? ciency of our operation, like AI in Tug Dispatching. 2022 until the end of 2024. All Damen 2513 projects, 80 TBP

The use of all the data that we have been storing since we with Escort Tug notation. These tugboats will be IMO Tier III launched our Operation Center, will be our focus, either to compliant, the very ? rst in Brazil with this European pattern, improve the ef? ciency of internal processes or to launch new aiming to attend some customers’ requirements and in line products for the portfolio of our group. To achieve this, our with Wilson Sons Group target on emissions’ reduction.

? eet is getting fully connected allowing us to gather all the

Can you give an overview of how Wilson Sons data our Tugboats can produce during the operations.

Tugboat Division examines, trials and selects

Are there any other current boat newbuild projects, technologies to retrof t on existing boats or incor- either recently completed, ongoing, or planned for porate into new boats. the near future?

We, as a tug operator, have a close relationship with our

We have just ? nished the delivery of a series of 14 tugboats. shipyard, responsible for building our vessels, and with Da-

The last units were two 3212 Damen Project that reached 90 men, who help us a lot with its projects and its long experi-

TBP, making them the most powerful tugboats operating in ence as a ship builder. Whenever we have to take a deci-

Brazilian Ports. All were built in our own shipyard located in sion on implementing modi? cations, or the details of new

Guarujá (left margin of Santos Port). buildings, we have in our opinion, the best team to help us.

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