Friend & Co. the opportunities of the market of the mega-yachts are equipped with new covered dry dock of 102 meters in order to pick all



The Friendly Yard & Co. it has introduced today the project in order to realize a new covered dry dock of 102 meters with the objective to bring back to Genoa the supremacy in Mediterranean within for this type of infrastructures and - thanks to the possibility to work on boats until 100 meters of length - to ulteriorly strengthen the position of the company in the market of the refit of the mega-yachts, field - the president and the managing director of the genoese ship yard, Alberto Amico have remembered and Bruno Guglielmini - in which the battle for a long time it is begun and it has seen during the last few years important investments realized from concurrent yards, national leaders in Spain to Barcelona and France to the Ciotat.

Alberto Amico has remembered that regarding the competitors the genoese yard suffers from a chronic lack of operating spaces, inferior until four times regarding the main ones competitor, deficiency to which Friend & Co. work wants to satisfy with the new that the company had inserted in the plan of investments already in 2002. With the new basin - Gugliemini has explained - "we will cover 98% of the world-wide fleet of maxi-yacht in circulation". Draft - it has added - "of a work much endowed complex of mobile cover". Alberto Amico has specified that the project is approved of almost in its entirety by the Harbour Authority of Genoa, with the exception of the cover for which is necessary to attend that the executive planning of the structure is defined. The starting phase of construction of the work - Gugliemini has said - already is started and the bathtub will be completed in March 2014 while the mobile cover and the system one will be completed in the next October.

The investment for the new basin piles to 5,6 million euros and is supported through a plan financial that previews the employment of resources own of Friend & Co partially. and partially the resource to instruments of in the mid term credit: a financing demanded and approved of to the financial institution of the Region Liguria Filse, that it will use deep relative to POR 2013, action 124, and a financing distributed from Credem Bank. The million euro are altogether 25 that the company has invested from 1991 today, investments - they have specified Friendly and Wilhite - in great part destined to the infrastructure realization that will remain of state property property.

"The private ones - the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa has confirmed, Luigi Merlo, that he has participated to the presentation of the project in the center of the society - invest in infrastructures and it is not absolutely a discounted thing". Merlon has rimarcato also the dynamicity of the entrepreneurial initiative of the Friendly Yard & Co., than tip to assault the market and to compete on the international plan. The president of the Harbour Authority has declared himself instead much less satisfied of the state in which he pours the New Nautical Dock, close tourist port for the mega-yachts that is inserted in the genoese exhibition quarter and that the harbour agency has realized in 2006. In the course of a carried out inspection in recent days Merlon has found it "empty and desolated". The president of the harbour authority, agency that participates with 2% to the capital of Fair of Genoa, has explained that from the society that manages the exhibition quarter he attended a greater impulse and a greater exploitation of this space.

If on the front of the landings place for the mega-yachts to Genoa - being to the critic formulated from Merlon - numerous opportunities are not picked, on that of the repair and restructure of these boats the occasions Friendly & Co. not if it blows to them: the current pocketbook orders of the yard is of seven unit comprised between the 50 and 90 meters of length, five of which already in yard. The duration of the store clerks goes from one to six months and two of these, 86 meters and 65 meters of two customers Americans, will be executed near the basins n.1 and 2 of the society Agency Basins, the others near the structures of Friend. The store clerks - the company has announced - will cover about 35% of the volume of job estimated for the season, that she sees in average 80 projects between service, repairs and refit.

However the shipbuilding one of the mega-yachts joins in the widest market of the diportismo and the tourist portualità that in Italy is in suffering: "the season - it has found Alberto Amico - on the Italian coasts has been very modest regarding that of the Mediterranean competitors: Spain, France, Malta, Croatia". Friend has emphasized that during the last few years the policies for the field completely are mistaken. The genoese company has found as the potentialities of the section up to the present are taken advantage of least and as in Italy to the nautical one, species that of great dimensions, is attributed a strongly negative image, with consequent attitudes and sets in action wrong, negative and strongly self-destructive: pack-saddles to think - it has explained Friendly - to the tax parking launched from the precedence government and then (too late) substantially which took back, or to the modalities with which agencies and prelocated authorities have exercised also the right controls and assessments on this type of assets, with the result to make to migrate the mega-yachts in other Mediterranean Countries, between the astonishment of shipowners and commanders, incredulous and whom displeased of having to carefully avoid the ports and the Italian coasts.