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Fincantieri obtains a loan of 140 million euros from the BEAUTIFUL ones
It is face to finance the programs in research & development. Green light to the upset to sea of the plant of Sestri West, but - Fiom Cgil emphasizes - the government has not distributed necessary 50 million euros
June 28, 2012
Today to Rome the European Investment Bank (BEAUTIFUL), represented from vice-president the Western Dario Scannapieco, responsible for the operations in Italy, Malta and Balkans, and the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri, represented from the managing director Giuseppe Bono, has perfected a first tranche of 80 million euros of a total loan of 140 million turned to finance the programs in research & development of the society. The institution financial institution of the European Union has emphasized that draft of the first financing in absolute, to European level, than BEAUTIFUL ago in favour of the research & development of a society of the shipbuilding field of the naval one.
The project is concentrated mainly on three traditions: technological solutions finalized to the improvement of energy efficiency and the reduction of the fuel burnup of the ships; optimization of the configuration of the same ones, is during the construction is in the operating phase, so to increase of safety and to reduce of the environmental impact; innovative studies (also regarding the design) that they can reduce the masses and increase the habitable space of the ships.
The greater energy efficiency and better environmental impact - it has found the BEAUTIFUL ones - are traditions that re-enter entirely in the traditional activity of financing of the Bank of the European Union, to which an effect joins on the increase of the shipbuilding occupation induced from the naval one, whose productive row involves a high average and small number enterprises in all the territory.
While to Genoa the Committee of Basin has given the go-ahead free definitive to the project of upset to sea of the local plant of Fincantieri to Sestri West, work for which the government has allocated 50 million euros and that he among other things previews the filling of a water mirror of 71.000 square metres ( on 28 July and 12 October 2011). Remembering that a year it makes it was signed by the local institutions, the Fincantieri and the government the agreement in order to make to leave the upset to sea and that the Harbour Authority of Genoa and the Liguria Region has worked so that the work could leave, Fiom Cgil Genoa has emphasized that vice versa "the government has not maintained its engagements". "Without 50 million - it has found the secretary of the labor organization, Bruno Manganaro - the contest for the works of the upset does not leave, is money already announced but never arrived in the cases of the Harbour Authority. The government - he has added - speaks about development but he neither does not maintain the investments already signed as that for the Fincantieri di Sestri. The workers have fought hardly for giving a future to their ship yard and - he has concluded Manganaro - they ask the genoese institutions to make to feel their due voice so that 50 million are put immediately on hand in order to afford the contest of contract for the upset".
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