The Italian Saipem has defined the acquisition of 100% TPG (Terminal Portuaria de Guaruja SA), a Brazilian company that has a concession area perpetual extension of 35 hectares in Guarujá, in the industrial area of Santos, the largest Port of South America, in the State of São Paulo.
About the CFI would have to build a new container terminal. The site - Saipem has underlined - has a strategic position: situated about 350 km from Santos Basin, offshore Brazil, where the region were discovered pre-salt fields in ultra-deep waters, and about 650 km from Campos Basin, the ' Another most important basin offshore Brazil.
Saipem will proceed to the development of building a fabrication yard for the subsea and floating and a logistics base.Saipem activities that take place in the new site - said the Italian company - are complementary to the services provided by highly specialized fleet to ultra-deep waters that the company has developed in recent years, these reforms will also meet the requirements, very stringent in terms of local content (local content), set in Brazil in the field of high technology subsea developments in ultra-deep waters.
The construction of the new site will have an estimated cost of approximately $ 300 million, including the disbursement for the acquisition of CFI, and is expected to end in about two and a half years, with a timing consistent with the use of the site for developments of the pre-salt fields.
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