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Today to Genoa the dean of the Italian shipowners is died, Aldo Grimaldi
A life 96-year-old, its, marked from initiatives that have made the history of the Italian armament
December 7, 2018
From years, from decades, it was identified as the dean of the Italian shipowners. Because for all the typical figure of the condottiero pertaining to families incarnated that for generations were tied for vocation and history to the ships and the marine transport. Secular lineages such and which anchor in the years after the Second World War. But dean also because for all the impersonation of the oldest and authoritative able shipowner was pure to put itself at stake in a field that during the last few years is changed, also maintaining in Italy and elsewhere a strong familistica connotation.
This dean was Aldo Grimaldi who, reached at the age of 96, has concluded today to Genoa its history terrena. A history begun in 1922, year of its birth to Solofra (Avellino), than professionally is begun just in the years after the Second World War with the foundation, with the siblings Luigi, Mario and Guido, of the Shipping Grimaldi Siblings. A history that is framed in a family with deeper roots, with those of Aldo that stop when from young person passed the vacations on the ships of the uncle Achille Lauro.
The life of Aldo Grimaldi indissolubly is tied to the ships, is those in order to transport the goods, leaving from the first transport ships of class "Liberty", it is those in order to embark fleeting, passing from the cruise ships to the ferries with the order in 1991 of the first Great unit of the project "the Navi Veloci", first Italian marine company to the age to being quoted in Stock exchange. Life that has been concluded to Holding Grimaldi, society guided with the charge of chief executive officer in which they sit the sons Giovanni, Isabella and Alessandra.
But the history of Aldo Grimaldi is made also of important charges to out of the family companies, between which that of president of the Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma) covered from 1995 to 1997, of prestigious acknowledgments, as that of Knight of Labor in 2002, and important you reward, as BT - Assagenti conferred to it in the 2007 which "man of the year of the International Shipping" or as with the Cristoforo Colombo Award assigned to it in 2011 from the magazine "Lloyd's List".
A long and dense life of job. With death of the dean of the Italian shipowners it seems to conclude also the history of the Italian shipowning families. Perhaps, indeed sure it is not so. But today to all it seems so.
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From years, from decades, it was identified as the dean of the Italian shipowners. Because for all the typical figure of the condottiero pertaining to families incarnated that for generations were tied for vocation and history to the ships and the marine transport. Secular lineages such and which anchor in the years after the Second World War. But dean also because for all the impersonation of the oldest and authoritative able shipowner was pure to put itself at stake in a field that during the last few years is changed, also maintaining in Italy and elsewhere a strong familistica connotation.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
