Brazilian shipyard executive Sergio Leal leads a double life. But he’s not alone — tens of thousands of his compatriots share his passion for the country’s second national obsession.
Leal is executive secretary of Sinaval, the national association for shipyards that has done so much to help the domestic shipbuilding industry rise from the near-dead days of the late 1990s — when only 2,000 workers were registered and fewer than a thousand of those were gainfully employed — to today, when 78,000 are in work and the numbers are rising fast.
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