Bad shipyard, but what has that got to do with “(Offshore) vessels working in Brazil”??
I believe there are some US owned vessels working there (don’t know if US-flagged).
Any horror stories about those?
Anecdote:
Back 40 years ago I did several rig moves on an Argentine J/U Rig off Tierra del Fuego. The rig was build at Livingston Shipyard, Beaumont, Tx. in 1980 and classed by ABS.
After a “punch-through” we found a number of cracks in the main beams holding her up when elevated. When coughing out the cracks to repair it was found that welding rods had been used to “fill the welds”. (Nothing shown in X-ray records from the yard, or ABS reports)