Special WSB: "Por onde anda?"

Launched with ambition, left unfinished and now drifting through years of silence.

MT Abreu e Lima became one of the most emblematic hulls in Guanabara Bay. An Oil Products Tanker designed at 182.85 meters in length and 32.2 meters in beam, it was ordered by PDVSA and built at EISA. Capacity: roughly 340,000 barrels of refined products. Hull launched in 2009, with outfitting halted midway.

The project collapsed in early 2010, when PDVSA suspended payments amid Venezuela’s financial deterioration. Work stopped. The vessel remained where it was launched, turning into a symbol of the shipyard’s downfall and of an interrupted industrial cycle.

In October 2024, after years of stillness, the vessel made headlines again. Strong winds in Rio broke its mooring lines sending the hull adrift. Brasa Marítima stepped in and restored the vessel to safety, towing it back to a secure berth.

Current status: structurally afloat, mechanically incomplete and still awaiting any decision on its ultimate fate. No confirmed owner movement, no classification activity and no sign of reactivation so far.

Every Thursday a new “Por onde anda?” — stay tuned!

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