Costa Crociere acquires 33.3% of Chantier Naval de Marseille



The barycentre of the activities of naval repair between the ports of Genoa and Marseilles is moved more and more towards the French port of call where during the last few years the main active genoese companies in the field have installed their presence and developed to business and synergies.

Genoese Saint George of the Port, than from 2008 takes part of holding Genoa Naval Industries (GIN) constituted together to another historical genoese yard, T. Mariotti, has signed in fact partnership strategic with the crocieristica company a Costa Crociere, that she has also headquarters to Genoa, for the widening of Chantier Naval de Marseille (CNdM), the society controlled from the company of the capital of Liguria that is instituted in 2010 with the specific scope to manage the dry docks n. 8 and n. 9 of the port of Marseilles and also the basin n. 10 that will become operating the next month and that, with its dimensions of 465 for 85 meters, will be largest of the western Mediterranean ( on 24 June 2016).

The objective of the announced understanding today is to institute to Marseilles a center of world-wide excellence for the naval repairs and transformations. The agreement previews the income of Costa Crociere with a quota 33.3% in Chantier Naval de Marseille and a first investment of 10 million euros finalized to increase the efficiency of the yard being made use of the best technologies available.

The two partner has emphasized that the investment will generate volumes and scale such to allow to take advantage of the structures for the entire shipowning section and any type of ship and to maximize the potentialities of the basin n. 10 that can accommodate the ships of great dimensions. The consequent benefits are evidenced are also in directed occupational terms that for the development of the induced one.

"The shipbuilding Italian - the managing director of Saint George of the Port has asserted, Ferdinando Garrè - is an excellence that Saint George of the Port has exported also to Marseilles, where the infrastructural characteristics of the port afford to increase the business to new segments of market. With the constitution of Chantier Naval de Marseille, in these years we have placed the bases in order to create a center specialized in the naval transformations and repairs. The income in partnership of an important player as Costa Crociere strengthens this project and affords to constitute a real center of world-wide excellence for the naval repairs and transformations, an international point of reference opened to all the shipowners and all the segments of market".

Remembering that "the group Coast is leader in the European market" and that "graces to a strategy based on the innovation demonstrates of being the company of the field that more looks to the future", the managing director of Costa Crociere, Michael Thamm, has explained that "this partnership strategic, before this genre for the group Coast, represents a fundamental passage for our future operations and will assure a management of excellence of the activities of maintenance of our ships, comprised those of new generation of which we will have in the next few years. They are sure - it has added - that this partnership will carry a great added value to both the companies, let alone new opportunities in order to construct an innovative and efficient yard".