Estaleiro Atlntico Sul

Estaleiro Atlantico Sul, EAS, is a Brazilian yard at Suape Port, in Ipojuca, Pernambuco. It builds large vessels and steel structures, repairs and converts ships and platforms, and recycles them. The site covers 1,069,960 square metres, of which 109,841 square metres is workshop, 11,835 square metres storage and 8,325 square metres spray booth. The yard has one dry dock and one quay. The dock is watertight to a standard that allows total environmental control, can carry out double docking, takes VLCCs of up to 380 metres and is the only dock in the north-east of Brazil able to dock an FPSO the operator ranks it second largest in Brazil and first in the country for lifting capacity. Two 35 tonne and two 50 tonne ZPMC cranes at 60 metres serve it, and two Goliath gantries of 1,500 tonnes safe working load each give a combined lifting capacity of 2,750 tonnes at 100 metres of height over a 164 metre span, enough to lift directly from barges and vessels in front of the dock gate.