Messina, the financing distributed from Carige is guaranteed by our modern fleet



Answering today to the Chamber of Deputies to a urgent interpellation on the effects of the crisis of the financial institution genoese Carige, vice-president of the Council of Ministers and minister of the economic Development, the job and the social policies, Luigi Di Maio, it has denounced that "for a Carige long period it has assumed too much high risks on numerous operations, we say, "debatable"". Remembering that "the bank has accumulated losses on the credits for various billions of which had euros", the vice prime Minister has listed a series of financings that the bank would have granted with excessive lightness and that they would have placed in state of crisis the institute. Between these, Di Maio has cited "a debit of about 450 million for the financings distributed to the Messina group".

Draft of a financing regarding which at the end last year the shipowning group genoese Ignazio Messina & C. has undersigned with Carige and other banks a for reimbursement gradual agreement of the loan, understanding as a result of which the shipowning group Helvetic Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) will acquire 49% of the capital of the Messina.

Call in cause from vice-president of the Council, the genoese company has emphasized that for the company the participation of the vice prime Minister "represents a positive initiative. The declarations of the member of parliament Di Maio - the Messina specifies in a note - aim to generate transparency; to operate in the shadow does not re-enter in the genetic patrimony of our group. It is true: our name which debtors of Banca Carige more wide will become famous to an audience still, but this - the company explains - supplies to we the opportunity to specify that hypothecating financing of mean-along term all is today guaranteed by one of the fleets of ships, all of Italian flag, between most modern of the world; it allows us also to say that the financing distributed from Carige, for which a plan exists of re-enters, has allowed and allows with one of the navigation companies that have made the history of the Italian marineria, from 1921, to continue to operate and to guarantee job more than thousand dependent directed besides those of the induced one".

The note of the Messina concludes evidencing that the group is accustomed to the transparency and that, own for this, formula to the vice prime Minister Di Maio "our full availability, if it considered it necessary, to being listened and to supply all to it the information that had to be useful to it".