In the 2016 revenues of group RINA has grown of +19%


Today the assembly of the associates of the Italian group of certification and classification RINA has approved of the consolidated financial statement into the exercise 2016 that anticipates revenues pairs to 448 million euros, with an increment of +19% regarding 378 million euros in 2015, and an EBITDA 54 million euros on base proforma (+25%), considering - it has specified the society - of the activities of new the acquired Edif, international operator that supplies services of testing, inspection and ingegneristica advising of which the acquisition to July 2016 is perfected.

RINA has announced that in the 2016 field marine it has maintained to the levels of activity of the year precedence, although the difficult context of market of the construction of commercial ships. The fleet in class RINA has reached the 5,610 total units for 36,8 million tons of tonnage regarding 5.242 ships for 35,0 million tsl to 31 December 2015. To end the 2016 orderbook of new constructions it has been attested to 450 ships for a total of beyond 4.5 million gross tonnages regarding 625 ships for 6,5 million tsl at the end of the exercise precedence.

RINA has specified that in the segment marine exercise 2016 "has seen the group to less strengthen own position in the interested segments of shipbuilding the world-wide one from the crisis. They are confirmed, therefore - it has specified the company - the supremacy of the RINA in the classification of the fleeting ferries and ro-ro, the leadership in the yachting and the field of the ships from cruise, is in terms of fleet in classified exercise is of new constructions. The orderbook it sees, in fact, beyond two million tons of tonnage in the ships from cruise, between which it detaches the supremacy of the first ships from cruise to the world to being entirely fed to GNL, let alone most able in terms of transportable passengers never realized".

the Italian company has announced that good performances have been recorded in the field of the Business Assurance (+6%), in that of the transports that an increase of 40% has seen and in the agricultural and food- field that has recorded an increase of 7%, while inspecting activities (- 16%) and of engineering (- 27%) in the field oil & gas have marked a bending, section - it has explained group RINA - "where the level of the price of the oil have forced the main world-wide oil societies to a strong reorganization of the investments".

"2016 - it has commented the president and managing director of the Italian group, Ugo Salerno - has been shut with results in increase mainly thanks to the acquisition of the Edif group who has afforded us to enrich the RINA with strong competences in the fields of the nets electrical workers and of renewable energies that are those which will see the greater investments in the next few years. In spite of difficulties of the shipping and oil & the gas, we have obtained important satisfactions in other withins and have placed the bases in order to face a market that also in the 2017 is anticipated uncertain. The internationalization, the development of the internal professionalities to our group and the ability to interpret the requirements of the market are the elements on which we continue to invest in order to exceed the challenges that we are called to face".

Today the assembly has moreover named the new board of directors that will guide the group in the next three years and that Ugo Salerno is composed of (president and managing director), Marco Cerrina Feroni (vice-president), Sergio Ravagli (vice-president), Nazareno Cerni, Emanuele Grimaldi, Alberto Maestrini and Paolo Pierantoni.