Bono (Fincantieri): the national steel production is necessary



Today in the ship yard of Monfalcone of the Fincantieri the ceremony of delivery of the cruise ship Royal Princess, the new flagship of the company Princess Cruises of the crocieristico group has been carried out American Carnival Corporation. With its 141,000 tons of tonnage, the 330 meters of length and the 38 meters of width, the Royal Princess are the greatest cruise ship never constructed from Fincantieri. The ship has 1.780 cabins, of which 1,438 equipped of balcony, and can accommodate 3,600 passengers, for an ability to beyond 5.600 people enclosed the crew.

In the course of the event, to which he has participated to the president and managing director of Princess Cruises, Alan Buckelew, the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe De Bono, referring to the worries for the follow-up of the activity to the iron and steel work Ilva to Taranto, has restated the importance of the national production of the steel for the shipbuilding one: for the single Royal Princess, the greatest ship never constructed in Italy - it has specified - by it is served 30,000 tons.

Bono has evidenced the job made until the last one in order to tear the Royal Princess to the German yards and has emphasized that of Monfalcone is the only Italian yard not to have received deep for search and innovation. Moreover the managing director of Fincantieri has remembered that within the end of this year, without to appeal to lay-offs, 800 workers to conclusion of the first biennium of the social plan of the group will exit from the company, that previews 1,700 esuberi among other things.

In its participation viceministro to Infrastructures and the Transports, Vincenzo De Luca, it has emphasized that Fincantieri has been saved "because - it has explained - it has made two things that it is difficult to make in this Country: it has had the courage to decide, to give an industrial plan, to get to terms with the globalization and the sensibility to get ahead a trade-union negotiation that has looked to the substance of the problems and that is to the defense of the job and not of the pseudo-trade-union liturgies that do not serve to nothing".

"The engagement - president of the Region Friuli Venice Julia has declared, Debora Serracchiani - wage also in a so dramatic crisis and Fincantieri demonstrates it, so as it demonstrates that a public exists who works and attests the Italian ability to make, sending to Italy a message of confidence and hope, but above all of seriousness".