Renave

Renave is a Brazilian ship repair yard on Ilha do Viana in Guanabara Bay, at Niteroi across the water from Rio de Janeiro. The legal entity is Renave-SLO-Shipyard, Logistica e Offshore Ltda. It repairs vessels rather than building them. The operator publishes six docks on the island, four of them floating and two dry, among them Guilhem, Jose Rebelo, Alexandrino, Henrique Lage and Orlando Barbosa. Panamax is the docking limit; afloat, the yard takes vessels of any size. Water alongside reaches 11 metres. Hull, machinery, piping and outfitting work is done in the yard's own workshops, with abrasive blasting, water jetting at up to 40,000 psi and automated welding on site, and a dredging barge of 418 cubic metres. Quality management is certified to ISO 9001:2015. Two further lines separate the yard from a pure repair operation. It offers lay-up, taking a vessel out of service for an extended period with tanks emptied, machinery lubricated and protected against corrosion, the ship covered and inspections kept up. And the island is authorised by ANTAQ, the Brazilian waterborne transport regulator, as a private use terminal, so a ship can call for crew change, bunkering, fresh water, sewage and garbage removal, cranage and mooring assistance with no repair job attached. A land-side terminal of 15,000 square metres, with parking, supports that traffic.