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Mauá Shipyard, on the eastern shore of Guanabara Bay, at Ponta d'Areia, Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro, was founded in 1904 on the same site where Baron of Mauá opened his shipyard in 1865. It is a forerunner and historic landmark in the industry not only in Brazil but also in all Latin America. Mauá - now called Mauá-Jurong - was started by Companhia Comércio e Navegaçăo (CCN) and has major records in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry, such as the first oil tankers, cold storage ships, automated liners, and oil platforms built in Brazil, for example. Since the shipyard required advanced communication services to talk to Brazil and the world with quality and at competitive costs, it uses Embratel services to solve the problem.
"Today we have a connection with Embratel through a 2 Mbps Primelink, by which we send data between our jobsites here in Ponta d'Areia and others in Ilha da Conceiçăo, also in Niterói", says Marcelo Cohen, IT manager for Mauá-Jurong shipyard. "We use a Renpac link and, in advanced telephony, VipLine with VipPhone services. All our national and international long distance and local calls are made through these services."
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Marcelo Cohen, Mauá-Jurong
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Shipbuilding Vocation
The Mauá-Jurong shipyard plays an important role in the recent recovery process of Rio State's shipbuilding vocation. The company performs several services for Petrobras and other private customers. Cohen explains that the industrial activities demand contact with supplies in many countries: "It's hard to know which countries we don't call, because we talk to suppliers all over the world. All our project engineering is done in Brazil, as well as the process plant, integration, commissioning and pre-operation of FPSO platforms, which have strong world demand. Since parts, equipment and special materials come from dozens of countries, we need to keep in touch with all of them."
Cohen says that the shipyard intends to hire from Embratel all the telecommunication services it needs. "We still don't have complete data communication, but we hope that Embratel will start providing full Internet provider services to meet all our requirements for hosting, internal mail and FTP. We will implement R2 digital interfaces for direct internal dialing through Embratel Digital Access (ADE) and keep the Renpac access for data with the Federal Revenue, since we are also a customs port."
The IT manager proceeds: "We're very pleased with the telephone services, in which Embratel proves to be an incomparable competitor in quality and prices. We have already regularly had savings of up to 25% in the monthly bill with VipLine and VipPhone. It's a benefit we can't afford to miss."
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