page_title: Río Santiago Shipyard
section_title: Recently
hierarchical_section_title: Río Santiago Shipyard / History / Recently
caption_attribution_description: Astillero Río Santiago.
context_page_description: The Rio Santiago Shipyard is a shipyard located in the city of Ensenada, Buenos Aires Province at the shores of the Santiago River. It has been one of the major active and important shipyards in Latin America. Founded in 1953, it has realized diverse functions in the naval, industrial and railroad sectors. In its golden age the shipyard reached 8,000 workers on double shift. In 2008 relies on 2,700 workers.
  The most famous work was the construction, in 1962, of the Fragata Libertad. In 1966 this vessel obtained the world speed record in sailing on its voyage across the North Atlantic, covering a distance of 2,058.6 nautical miles in 8 days and 12 hours. The race began in Cape Race, Canada and ended at an imaginary line set between Dublin and Liverpool.
context_section_description: After suffering the third change of direction in two years, the Rio Santiago Shipyard is back to work at full capacity for the first time in two decades. The new contracts signed with Venezuela are not the only ones that will revive the naval factory, there are also numerous projects already started, that require the immediate incorporation of 250 new workers.
  In March 2006, the "Madrisa" was launched, a cargo ship, technically called bulk carrier, built for a German customer. After that the construction of a new ship with similar characteristics was started and finally began on February 2007, the first of four tanker ships for Venezuela.
  The shipyard has been given offers to build oil platforms that will require, in case the job is acquired, that it share part of the work with another shipyard that is currently closed. The Corrientes Shipyard is being kept in mind for this job, since it already has experience building offshore platforms for Thailand.
  Construction of the first block of the "Eva Perón" started 18 January, one of the two platforms being built for PDVSA.
  On September 2010, signed a preliminary agreement with Ukrainian shipyard Chernomorsky Shipbuilding in order to gain experience in the construction of ice class ships 
  In November 2015 it was announced that the ARS shipyard will build 2 small ships for the Argentine Navy, the first ones after 32 years. The design, named LICA ((in Spanish) Lancha de Instrucción de Cadetes de la Armada) was developed by the shipyard's engineering team. It was expected that construction will start in early 2016.
  
  In August 2018, the company suffered multiple dismissals and, faced with the possible closure of the Río Santiago Shipyard plant, the workers mobilized in the city of La Plata to defend their jobs. The response of the provincial government, was the repression with rubber bullets and tear gas that caused serious incidents, registering several injured people
caption: Shipyard seen from river Santiago, April 2006
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