RINA Consulting (former Of Appolonia) will collaborate to the development of four ports in Kuwait



RINA Consulting, new denomination assumed from Of Appolonia, society that in 2011 has entered to take part of group RINA, has adjudicated a contract for the development of three already existing ports and another to plan former-novo in Kuwait. The store clerk of the value of 1,5 million euros is signed by the Kuwait Ports Authority in these days and she will conclude herself in 2018.

"The starting point - Manuela Sciutto has explained, sector manager for Port and Marine Facilities di RINA Consulting and in charge of the project - is the study of feasibility of the development and redesign of the three already existing ports. We will work in order to make forecasts on the traffics for next the 30 years, so as to determine the eventual impact on these projects and this will go to influence directly on the sustainability of the development plan, being gone to examine also the organizational model of the same Harbour Authority". Moreover - it has added - "an important element of the plan will be the identification of adequate sites for a potential quarter port in the South of the country".

Group RINA has specified that the project represents a key element of the strategic plan of development of the country to which is aiming the government of the Kuwait and for which RINA Consulting is already working to the completion of other assignments in the harbour field, arriving so to a total value of the collaboration of about 6.5 million euros.

The economy of the Kuwait - it has evidenced the Italian group - is still wide tied to the oil, but it is being delineated, for the next years, a remarkable leap forward in the development of the country. The government, in fact, has characterized potential the economic legacy to the construction of an additional port and to the efficientamento of those currently operating. He is previewed that such plan, once carried to term, becomes a milestone in the commercial evolution of the Kuwait, than today constitutes a strategic area geographically.

In Kuwait, RINA Consulting will work to tightened contact with the Harbour Authority, the Ministry of Public Works and the local government, in order to delineate the master plan that he will determine the strategy of increase of the next ports of the Kuwait in the 30 years, estimating the forecasts of traffic and the possible commercial increase. RINA Consulting will be able to count on a team of about twenty specialist engineers who will work on the project, is in Kuwait is from the center of RINA Consulting to Genoa, and will cure the study of infrastructures and that economic one, the analysis of the market and the traffics, the study of feasibility financial institution, logistics and of transport.