Joint venture Fincantieri - CSSC for the planning and construction of destined cruise ships Chinese and at the market Asian



Fincantieri has consolidated own collaboration with Lowers Is Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), the greater naval shipbuilding conglomerate of the China with which the Italian navalmeccanico group and the crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation they have agreed a strategy for the development of the crocieristica industry in China ( on 16 October 2014), signing an agreement for the constitution of joint venture finalized for this purpose. The signature has happened today to Shanghai between the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, the president of CSSC, Wu Qiang, and the president of CSSC Cruise Technology Development and the yard Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS), Wang Qi.

The today's agreement previews that joint venture developments and exclusively sells destined cruise ships and purposely personalized for the Chinese and Asian market. Such ships will be realized near one of the yards of CSSC, the site of SWS, on the base of a granted technological platform in licence to same joint venture and the yard of SWS from Fincantieri, than therefore it will operate, always through joint venture, in order to supply the activities of its competence. The understanding moreover previews that Fincantieri supplies to joint venture and the yard of SWS specific services of advising and some members key of the ships.

To the ceremony today to Shanghai they are taken part the ambassador of Italy in China, Ettore Sequi, the consul general of Italy to Shanghai, Stefano Beltrame, the vice minister of the Industry and information Chinese technology, Xin Guobin, deputy mayor of Shanghai, Zhao Wen, in representation of the Carnival group the chief operations officer of Carnival Asia, Michael Ungerer, besides numerous authorities of the Chinese government and the municipality of Shanghai.

Remembering that, according to the Ministry of Transportation of Beijing, the Chinese crocieristico market has recorded a meaningful expansion during the last few years reaching million passengers in 2015 and that the increase potentialities are estimated in 4,5 million passengers in 2020, that the managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono could carry such market to being the second to the world after that American, and in 8-10 million in 2030, with a annual increase to two figures who would carry the Chinese market to become first in absolute, has emphasized that "this new agreement once finds more the supremacy of the technical and technological competences of Fincantieri, and - it has added - it places in the middle of a project without equal the world to us that is directly promoted by the Chinese government through a program much ambitious".

"We have equipped ourselves in order to face the new international scenes and today - it has continued Bono - we come chosen as the shipbuilding partner of the development of the crocieristica of a Country that looks with great determination to this industry. Also the presence of our main Carnival customer, that it will acquire the ships object of the agreements, is of fundamental importance for the success of the project. As well as a victory and a dew claw for the future to work still more intensely, this result restates the ability to the group to pick for the first strategic potential high opportunity and therefore the role of leader to total level in all the fields in which work".

With respect to the Italian ship yards of the Fincantieri group, Bono has remembered that "they have assured the job medium for next the ten years, and that from the agreement - has specified - they will be able to derive ulterior relative benefits is to the componentry that to engineering, both of absolute level".

"The signature of this agreement with Fincantieri, navalmeccanico group international leader of field - the president of CSSC, Wu Qiang has commented - is another milestone not only for CSSC, but for the history of the Chinese crocieristica, for its development, and the cooperation in the within of the shipbuilding one between Italy and China. The union of the forces will ulteriorly pep up the fast increase of the Chinese market cruise and of that Asian-I appease. We are anxious to work together with Fincantieri, Carnival, CIC (China Investment Corporation) and the other partner strategic in order to succeed to construct and to deliver the first cruise ship of great dimensions of China".

While it is be announced today that the second one of the ships of generation "Seaside" that Fincantieri is constructing near the plant of Monfalcone for crocieristica company MSC Cruises and that it will enter in service between almost two years it will call MSC Seaview and it will pass the inaugural season in the western Mediterranean with home port in the city of Genoa, from which will sail on June 10, 2018 for its maiden voyage.

"Our company - the MSC managing director has explained Cruises, Gianni Onorato - has a tradition that sinks the roots in the Mediterranean and is therefore natural that MSC Seaview, our third ship smart of last generation who will enter in June in service 2018, is dislocated in this rich area of history and culture. The crocieristi can now program their vacations on board of one of the more innovative ships of the field and enjoy all which this region, always a lot appreciated, has to offer".