Genoa Naval Industries anticipates own plan for rearranges of the area of the genoese naval repairs



Draft not to choose itself if here or here, where Genoa is about to here and down there Marseilles is about to. The activity carried out in the French harbour city certainly will not be abandoned neither it will be that in the capital of Liguria. Draft to state itself, on the base of the operating possibilities, if to Genoa could be carried out the shipbuilding and other participations on ships of important dimensions. It has held to specify Ferdinando Garrè explaining because it and Marco Bisagno have convened today the journalists in order to confirm the decision to participate to the contest for the privatization of Agency Srl Basins, the gestrice society of the dry docks of the port of the capital of Liguria that currently are participated with 90% from the Harbour Authority of Genoa and with 10% from Genoese Naval Repairers, for which have introduced a relative manifestation of interest to the management of all the basins, and in order to introduce own plan of I historically throw again of the activities of the repair and shipbuilding in the area oriental of the port dedicated to such workings.

Bisagno and Garrè represent Genoa Naval Industries (GIN), the holding ones participated with 25% from the Garrè family and with 75% from the families Bisagno and Zanetti that are constituted in 2008 by T. Mariotti, the company specialized in the construction of cruise ships of luxury that is presided by Marco Bisagno, and Saint George of the Port, company of repairs and naval transformations of which Francesco Garrè he is managing director.

Currently T.Mariotti and Saint George of the Port, in the within of the Consortium Genoa Dry Docks to which the companies Gennaro, G.M.G., Ignazio Messina, Lagomarsino Anielli, the Mechanical New Navale and Zincaf participate also, manage the dry docks n. 4 and n. 5 of Agency Basins through the confidence in exclusive use until on December 31, 2015. Together the two societies have introduced today a plan of rearrange of the area of the naval repairs that is centralized on a blowup of the basin n. 4, in order to carry it from the current length almost 270 meters for a width of 40 meters to a dimension of 330-340 meters for 60-80 meters about (width that depends on the choice to only work on ships or also on the platforms), and the tombamento of the Marina Duke of the Abruzzi on which currently some sport and nautical circles appear and the historical center of the Italian Yacht club with the realization of large squares for about 80-100mila square metres.

For the widening of the basin n. 4, with work that for a year or a year and means would return the bathtub unusable, are previewed an investment of about 60-70 million euros to which Genoa Naval Industries would intend to participate approximately for 50%. All this - they have assured Garrè and Bisagno - enclosed in the blueprint, the introduced design two months ago from architect Renzo Piano for the transformation of the area of the naval repairs that within this month will be retabled in its progettuale form ( on 6 October 2014). Sul forehead of the occupation, GINS previews to preserve the job of some 35 people that operate in Agency Basins.

All this for being able to continue, or better, to return to acquire relative store clerks to the cruise ships, market - it has specified Bisagno - in which the currently basins of Genoa forgiveness 80% of the job opportunities. "The escape to Marseilles has afforded to maintain us the customers historical", Bisagno has explained referring to the disembarkation in the French port of the holding GIN that in 2010 has won the contest in order to manage the dry docks of the port of call, where currently it has the basin n. , along 320 8 meters and wide 50, and of the basin n. , along 270 9 meters and wide 37, and where from on September 1°, 2015 it will have in delivery and concession for 25 years the basin n. 10 of the length of 465 meters and width of 85 meters.

As to Genoa, where adapted structures lack, also in French earth the company has found problems: "in the past - Bisagno has explained - Marseilles was powerful as Genoa in the repairs, then the field has been extinguished. To Marseilles a net of companies with a specific know-how-how does not exist". Bisagno but has specified that now the market has begun to recognize Marseilles and that the Chantier Naval de Marseille (CndM) of group CIN has various opportunities of development, in particular in the segment of the structures for the offshore industry.

Vice versa - it has denounced - Genoa bit by bit is being impoverished. The companies with which we worked are transforming and professionality gets lost". According to Bisagno, a radical change of direction is however still possible: "the market is and - it has added - there are the hopes and must adapt itself to the demands, between which those for the demolition", a segment, this last one, in which the port of Genoa he is pioneer thanks to the acquisition by Saint George of the Port in partnership with the Saipem of the store clerk for dismantling of the property left at death one of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. But - it has specified - "the city must make of the choices". Continuing in this direction they are continued to lose job occasions: "during the last few years - the president of T.Mariotti has remembered - we have realized a ten of hulls outside from Genoa and hundreds of million euro have gotten lost". "It is disheartening - it has continued - not to make these work for lack of an area hardly 50 thousand square metres. Therefore we depend on third party and we do not have a our space in order to program our workings". The alternative - it has emphasized - is that of a not favorable return to the origins: "we have been born as workshops and today we are yard. Perhaps we will return to being workshops".

It is a hypothesis that Bisagno and Garrè discard a priori: "our objective - they have reaffirmed - is to invest here".